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Their chocolate shop has been voted "Best of Fort Lauderdale" four years running (2010 to 2013).

“These results demonstrate how we have been able to improve cocoa yields and quality, as well as the livelihoods of the farmers and their communities,“ says Grow Cocoa’s program director, Kevin Wilkins.

General Mills has announced a commitment to sustainably source 100 percent of its 10 priority ingredients by 2020, including cocoa, sugar and other ingredients.

Sustainability and the Latin America’s role in the cocoa sector will be among the main topics at this year’s World Cocoa Foundation 24th Partnership Meeting.

It’s official — cocoa flavanols really are good for you, at least according to a European Union Commission.

The thing about the 2020 sustainability goal is that everyone already knows there’s no way every single company will be able to get 100 percent “Fairtrade” chocolate.

Mars’ recent flavanols study helped create an industry standard to measure them, and could one day lead to labels on candy bars clearly saying how many flavonols are in the package.

San Juan de Cheni had been devastated by years of guerilla warfare, and was attempting to rebuild with cocoa farming.

According to most projections, about 60 percent of all cocoa grown in 2020 will need to be certified. That’s equals to about 2 million more tons. How does one go about doing that, one asks?

It’s also about the cherries, cherries, cherries for the Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Co. these days.