Sentences with phrase «from cocoa supply»

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While the big chocolate companies like Mars, Hershey's and Nestle still source cocoa from West Africa, these companies are investing in regulating the supply chain.

A larger than expected supply of cocoa beans from West Africa will add to high buffer stocks and push cocoa prices down by 4 %, according to financial service provider Rabobank.

This means that while certified cocoa might not end up in every chocolate bar because of certified and non-certified ingredients mixing at the company's facility or the facilities of the company's suppliers, the supply chain is still buying cocoa from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms and including this ingredient in the overall manufacturing of its chocolate recipes.

Under this new cocoa sourcing program, a company can claim on product packaging that Rainforest Alliance Certified cocoa is sourced for a particular brand if the volume of cocoa purchased by their supply chain from certified farms matches the volume of cocoa used in the manufacturing of that specific brand.

The fair - trade cocoa used in our chocolate chips comes from beans supplied by farmers in Peru.

Four concrete and relevant targets by 2025 In order to secure the future of chocolate, Barry Callebaut's new sustainability strategy includes four targets that the company expects to achieve by 2025 and that address the biggest sustainability challenges in the chocolate supply chain: • Eradicate child labor from its supply chain • Lift more than 500,000 cocoa farmers out of poverty • Become carbon and forest positive • Have 100 % sustainable ingredients in all its products CEO Antoine de Saint - Affrique says: «The targets we have set ourselves after a thorough materiality analysis are bold, and we recognize that we do not have all the answers.

We source different varieties of cocoa, namely Crillo, Forastero and Trinitario, and we have strong relationships with suppliers from Ghana, Cameroon, Brazil and the Ivory Coast.

Barry Callebaut has acquired the remaining 51 % of Biolands Group, its long - time supplier of certified cocoa beans from East and West Africa.

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).

When the 4 - finger KitKat received the Fairtrade mark, it was announced that 6,000 farmers would benefit from supplying cocoa for it, gaining about an extra # 400,000 per year from the Fairtrade premium.

Every year the WCFPM brings together a diverse group of actors in the cocoa industry, including representatives from companies along the cocoa supply chain, members of governments of cocoa producing countries, and relevant NGO actors to discuss challenges and solutions for improving the sustainability of the cocoa sector.