The Projet de Production Durable de Cacao Certificié (PPDC) - Market-oriented promotion of certified sustainable cocoa production was a joint public and private sector project aimed to improve the well-being of smallholder cocoa farmers in Ivory Coast. The project encouraged the production of...
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UTZ Certified Cocoa
Consumers are increasingly aware of the challenges faced by the cocoa sector in which farmers face poor labour conditions and have to cope with problems as poor soil fertility, aging tree stocks and improper use of chemicals and uncontrolled deforestation. Consumers want products that are grown...
Scientific Certification Systems
Scientific Certification Systems (SCS) is a global leader in independent certification and verification of environmental, sustainability, stewardship, food quality, food safety and food purity claims. SCS develops internationally recognized standards and certification programs in pursuit of the...
Ethically Sourced Cocoa - Starbucks Coffee Company
Starbucks' Cocoa Practices program is designed to verify the supply chain for the cocoa beans that will ultimately end up in their beverages and provide valuable sustainability information to producers and purchasers alike. The inspections are performed by independent verifiers that are trained...
Sustainable Cocoa - Solidaridad Network
Solidaridad aims at a sustainable and fair cocoa chain, from farmer to consumer. The organization consists of a worldwide network of regional expertise centres and cooperates with local partners.
Sustainable cocoa & sugar
Unilever wants to source sugar and cocoa sustainably by 2020. On this web page the company explains how cocoa cultivation can be improved, which targets it sets towards reaching this goald and its collaboration with the Rainforest Alliance with reagrd to certification. Unilver further tells...
Nestlé Cocoa Plan - Supporting farmers for better chocolate
The Nestlé Cocoa Plan aims to enable farmers to run profitable farms, eliminating child labour, while ensuring a sustaianble supply chain for Nestlé cocoa. It is a long term plan which aims to achieve great quality cocoa through certification with its partners and improving the lives of thoise...
Divine Chocolate
In autumn 1998, Divine, the first ever Fairtrade chocolate bar aimed at the mass market was launched onto the UK confectionery market. In an exciting new business model, the co-operative of cocoa farmers in Ghana own shares in the company making the chocolate bar.
Cocoa - Sustainable Trade Initiative
Cocoa is one more commodity sectors in which IDH - the sustainable trade intitiave is active in. On this web page you will find information on the cocoa improvement program, news from the sector as well as information on sustainability issues.
European Chocolate and Cocoa Industry : committed to cocoa farming families
This is a website of the Association of chocolate, biscuit and confectionery industries of the European Union. For the companies that use cocoa, the way forward is clear: help the cocoa farming family thrive. Their efforts are focussed on three strands of activity including economic development...
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