Sentences with phrase «cocoa communities for»

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Cailler chocolates are made from some of the finest ingredients available including selected cocoa beans from the Nestlé Cocoa Plan, an initiative to help farmers run profitable farms, improve social conditions in the cocoa growing communities and source good quality, sustainable cocoa for Nestlé products.

ICI promotes child protection in cocoa - growing communities and works to ensure a better future for children and their families.

The Hershey Co. has launched the Cocoa For Good program, a comprehensive cocoa sustainability strategy designed to address the most pressing issues facing cocoa - growing communities: poverty, poor nutrition, at - risk youth and vulnerable ecosystems.

The joint initiative, called the Rainforest Alliance - Olam Partnership for Livelihoods & Landscapes in Western Ghana, aims to conserve the cocoa forest landscape and sustain the agricultural livelihoods of communities around the Sui River, Suhuma, Tano Ehuro and Santomang Forest Reserves — a region where forests are particularly threatened by cooca production.

The aim of the Cocoa For Good project is to address key challenges facing the industry, namely poverty, labour abuses and deforestation in cocoa - growing communities.

Independent studies show that Rainforest Alliance training leads to increased yields and income, as well as many other long - term benefits for farmers, families and communities that depend on cocoa.

We believe that empowered, thriving cocoa communities are the essential foundation for sustainable cocoa.»

Sharing knowledge and skills results in improved productivity, protection of fertile land and a better future for our cocoa communities.

Cocoa growing communities, particularly in West Africa, are facing poverty, child labour and deforestation that have been made worse by a rapid fall in prices for cocoa.

Traditional gender roles are at play throughout these farming communities, and training and resources for cocoa farmers often exclude women.

For most of them, it was their first time in Africa, their first time seeing cocoa trees, and their first time visiting rural communities.

Information for the submission was drawn from Baby Milk Action (marketing of breastmilk substitutes, water pumping in São Lourenço, Brazil), International Labor Rights Forum (child slavery and labour in the cocoa supply chain, Labour rights abuses in Colombia), Union of Filipro Employees (Labour rights abuses in the Philippines), Corporate Accountability International (Conflicts with communities over water resources), Attac Switzerland (Spying on campaign organisations), with additional information drawn from Food Inc. published by the UK Food Group (reference in the submission, treatment of dairy and coffee farmers).

These are the obstacles president Mahama and the NDC government are eliminating by going for loans and investing in them infrastructure like the Kwame Nkrumah circle interchange (which Manasseh believes deserve no praise), Kasoa interchange, the cocoa roads, 123 new community day shs, the eastern region university, the 4 regional hospitals, the district hospitals being constructed nationwide (he should go to Dodowa and see how they are benefitting from their new district hospital), the Takoradi railway project, etc..

The Assembly member for the Barekuma Electoral Area Hon. Kwaku Appiah Kubi Saalia, noted that many cocoa farmers in the surrounding communities become stranded anytime there is heavy downpour of rain in an attempt to bring their commodities to Barekekuma, to be transported the harbor in Takoradi.

General News of Wednesday, 16 May 2018 Source: otecfmghana.com File Photo: A broken bridge in Sokoban The chiefs and people of Barekuma, a cocoa farming community in the Atwima Nwabiagya North district of the Ashanti region are appealing to the District Assembly and the Member of Parliament for the area to construct their collapsed bridge on River Offin, which links them to other communities as hundreds of cocoa bags remain locked out.

The chiefs and people of Barekuma, a cocoa farming community in the Atwima Nwabiagya North district of the Ashanti region are appealing to the District Assembly and the Member of Parliament for the area to construct their collapsed bridge on River Offin, which links them to other communities as hundreds of cocoa bags remain locked out.

All efforts to revive cocoa farming in the community proved futile as their lands were no longer suitable for cocoa cultivation.

For many of us, the holidays aren't complete without milk and cookies or a cozy cup of hot cocoa — but families in need in our communities may be missing out on milk and its nine essential nutrients this holiday season.

Independent studies show that Rainforest Alliance training leads to increased yields and income, as well as many other long - term benefits for farmers, families and communities that depend on cocoa.