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Videos & presentations | green production

Presentation held at the Origin Chocolate Event (23 of October, 2013, Royal Tropical Institute of Amsterdam) by Anna Laven and Susanne van der Kooij. The presentation shows the learning process about fine or flavour chocolate, its chain and its sustainable characteristics.

Improving the marketing competitiveness of Fine or Flavour cocoa origins

In this presentation the roles and usages of bio gas, bio fertilizers, efficient transporting systems and less pacakging are discussed in relation to mitigate the negative environmental aspects of chocolate production.

Cocoa has been a serious agent of deforestation in Ghana and its continued expansion in the Western Region is threatening globally important protected areas and the integrity of the ecosystem. Productivity growth through intensification must be part of the equation. Achieving a yield gap of 50%...

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