Items Tagged with 'cocoa sustainability'

Aaron Iverson, national sales manager, North America, Global Organics, talks sustainable cocoa ingredients, certifications like Fairtrade and Organic, and what's new for the company.

The snack company is backing the next phase of Cocoa Life with an additional $600 million, for a total $1 billion investment since 2012.

More than 28 million trees have been planted in Côte d’Ivoire to support forest regeneration. Meanwhile, Ghana restored 9,488 hectares of degraded forest.

Divine Chocolate is committed to propeling change along the cocoa supply chain, enabling farmers and their families to flourish while addressing issues such as child labor, gender inequality and deforestation.

Mars says more than half of its cocoa is traceable to farmer groups as of the end of 2020.

Short is tasked with leading efforts by cocoa and chocolate companies to make the cocoa supply chain sustainable by raising farmer incomes, fighting child labor, and ending deforestation.

Latitude’s dark chocolates contain only two ingredients, cocoa and cane sugar. All of its products and flavors draw on locally-sourced Ugandan ingredients from the milk and coffee to the vanilla.

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.

The World Cocoa Foundation and the Forestry Commission of Ghana are building a partnership to further align the Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ Program and the Cocoa & Forests Initiative to achieve no deforestation commitments.

Mondelēz International, Inc. and Olam Food Ingredients (OFI) are joining forces in Indonesia to create the world’s single largest sustainable commercial cocoa farm.