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Name: Carolina Santos (colcoacol)
Organization:
Colcoa
Expertise:
farmers & production, productivity & quality, access to land, access to markets, chains & relations
Countries of interest:
Colombia
Biography:
We are a Colombian Company focused on the production and export of high quality cocoa paste of 100% colombian origin characterized with fine flavors and aromas. The harvesting of cocoa beans is done by small farmers with whom we maintain a direct contact and to which we pay a premium above the...
Name: (Amarens Felperlaan)
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Name: Jean DJAYA (scosa-ci)
Organization:
SCOSA-CI
Expertise:
farmers & production, farmer entrepreneurship, farmer organization, productivity & quality, access to markets
Countries of interest:
Africa, Cote d'Ivoire
Biography:
Manager of SCOSA-CI , an organization owned and managed by Farmers based in Côte D'Ivoire for sustainable Cocoa production and delivery. www.scosa-ci.com
Name: Jeroen Kruft (Jeroen Kruft)
Organization:
Ananda Chocolate / Amigos International
Expertise:
farmer entrepreneurship, farmer organization, access to markets, green production, business development services
Countries of interest:
Tanzania, Indonesia, India, Latin America, Ecuador, Peru, Europe, Netherlands
Biography:
Jeroen Kruft (Arnhem, 1969) lived in the Netherlands, Tanzania, Jamaica and Indonesia before obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Physics at Macalester College, St. Paul, USA. After graduation, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he worked as a musician, teacher, and environmentalist. Jeroen recorded...
Name: Martin Christy (Martin Christy)
Organization:
Direct Cacao
Expertise:
access to markets, future cocoa farmers, transparency, consumers, certification
Countries of interest:
Other, Ecuador, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Peru, Panama, Venezuela, United Kingdom, Canada, United States
Biography:
Martin Christy is Founder and Editor of fine chocolate review website Seventy%. He is a leading voice in the fine chocolate industry, passionate about the promotion and preservation of fine chocolate and fine cacao, and supporting those who produce them. Martin runs sensorial workshops and tastings...
Name: (Dick de Bruin)
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Name: Jeroen Kroezen (Jeroen Kroezen)
Organization:
Solidaridad
Expertise:
farmer entrepreneurship, farmer organization, access to markets, chains & relations, certification
Countries of interest:
Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe
Name: Thibault d'Huart (tdh)
Organization:
Tropicore International
Expertise:
access to land, access to markets, access to finance, access to services & inputs, transparency
Countries of interest:
DR Congo
Name: Harm van Oudenhoven (Harm van Oudenhoven)
Organization:
Zoen Chocolate & El Castillo del Cacao
Expertise:
access to markets, consumers, markets & policies, private sector policies, public-private partnerships
Countries of interest:
Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, Indonesia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Bolivia, Suriname, Netherlands, United States
Biography:
In 2004 I established El Castillo del Cacao s.a., a small chocolate factory in Matagalpa, Nicaragua. The company sells chocolate bars throughout Nicaragua and Central America. In Sri Lanka I established Hansa Coffee, a premium national coffee brand. In the Netherlands I have recently established...
Name: Anders Prien Saxboel (Anders Saxboel)
Organization:
Maya Mountain Cacao
Expertise:
farmers & production, farmer entrepreneurship, productivity & quality, access to markets, chain governance
Biography:
Consultant in cacao agronomy and agroforestry at Maya Mountain Cacao 2013. Research Fellow, ICRAF/CGIAR, Sulawesi 2013. Sustainable cocoa production and appropriate supply chain interventions; joint action; public-private partnerships. MSc Agricultural Development; BA Anthropology; Organic farming...

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