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Lindt & Sprüngli achieves 100% traceable cocoa

Chocolate company achieves sustainability, transparency through Farming Program.

May 26, 2021

With the 2020 harvest season, 100 percent of Lindt & Sprüngli’s cocoa beans are traceable back to the farmers and its Farming Program is verified by the Earthworm Foundation.

Sharing Barry Callebaut's knowledge with industry to improve carbon reduction goals in the cocoa supply chain

July 27, 2020

Barry Callebaut has a target to become forest positive by 2025. This means that it has to develop a greater understanding of where deforestation is at risk of occurring in its supply chain.

Nestlé creates chocolate with cocoa pulp as natural sweetener

New 70% dark chocolate contains no refined sugar.

July 16, 2019

Nestlé has created a 70% dark chocolate made entirely from the cocoa fruit, using the pulp as a natural sweetener instead of refined sugar.

Blockchain for cocoa? Maybe.

Tony’s Chocolonely, Goodio Chocolate find blockchain an “interesting” solution for transparency.

Alyse Thompson

March 20, 2019

Blockchain is a buzzword often tied to cryptocurrencies, but bean-to-bar chocolate companies focused on improving transparency within the cocoa supply chain have other ideas.

Fairtrade to pay farmers 20 percent more for conventional cocoa next year

Organization will pay $300 more than market price or FairTrade Minimum Price for organic cocoa.

December 5, 2018

Fairtrade International is raising the prices it will pay for conventional and organic cocoa next fall after world cocoa prices dropped by more than a third last year.

Castronovo Chocolate founder combines ecology PhD with chocolate making

Denise Castronovo discusses why it's so important to be a bean-to-bar chocolate maker.

Crystal Lindell

September 6, 2018

When Denise Castronovo launched Castronovo Chocolate in 2013 with her husband Jim, she brought with her a PhD in ecology and a passion for rainforest conservation. So to her it was only natural that her company start in an actual forest - with the cocoa beans.

Appellate court upholds decision to toss Mars child-labor labeling suit

Ninth Circuit court affirms California district court’s decision to dismiss claims made against chocolate manufacturer.

Alyse Thompson

June 6, 2018

A federal appeals court has agreed that Mars, Inc. and other food manufacturers have no duty under California consumer protection laws to disclose on product packages that their supply chains may contain child labor.

Lutheran World Relief launches cocoa flavor map

Map designed to highlight cocoa characteristics of partner farms in Central America.

Alyse Thompson

October 31, 2017

Lutheran World Relief (LWR) has launched an online map documenting flavor profiles of cocoa produced by the nonprofit humanitarian organization’s farmer and cooperative partners.