Commodity: Cocoa

Reducing CO2 emissions requires immediate action

Sustainable Development Goal 13, climate action, involves adopting measures to combat climate change and its effects. Reducing CO2 emissions is…

05 March 2021

Launch of RECLAIM SUSTAINABILITY! programme for inclusive and sustainable value chains

Solidaridad, Fairfood, TrustAfrica and Business Watch Indonesia (BWI) are excited to launch our new joint programme, RECLAIM Sustainability! This five-year…

16 February 2021

The need for transparency and accountability in global supply chains

In December, the US Supreme Court heard arguments about whether Nestle USA and Cargill should be held responsible for child…

19 January 2021

Santos’ story

When farms thrive, smallholder producers contribute to growth in their communities. Santos Flores Reyes is one example of how people…

18 January 2021

Mawuse’s Story

Growing up in the Volta Region of Ghana, Mawuse Hotor knew firsthand the challenges of cocoa farming. After participating in…

13 January 2021

Cocoa

Roughly 70% of the world’s cocoa is produced in West Africa, with the remaining 30% coming from South-East Asia, and…

09 December 2020

How does poverty taste? Chocolatey.

With every bite of our favourite chocolate bar, we swallow the delicious product of a broken system that needs overhaul.…

30 November 2020

NORC report on child labour in West Africa: more accurate figures, but no farmers business case

This article originally appeared on LinkedIn. Estimates of the number of children in child labour were overestimated In previous years…

18 November 2020

Hope for smallholder farmers amid a pandemic

Farmers were provided with food crop seedlings to plant alongside oil palm and cocoa With the spread of the virus…

03 November 2020

Good farming, good energy