Sentences with phrase «of cocoa communities»

This year's report illustrates the company's initiatives to improve the livelihoods of cocoa farmers through sustainable cocoa farming practices and to address the basic health and education needs of cocoa communities.

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One great example of this latter approach is fair trade organic coffee and cocoa seller Deans Beans, which takes its profits and reinvests them in coffee - growing communities with local governance and guidance.

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.

Newman's Own Organics buys 100 percent of its cocoa from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms that protect the environment and ensure the well - being of workers, their families and surrounding communities.

This «mass balance» model of production allows companies to buy more cocoa from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms, which means that farmers, the environment, and cocoa - growing communities benefit from companies» increasing purchases.

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 communities we're working with reside on the Atlantic coast, in the central eastern and Corredor Seco regions, as well as in the remote, northeastern Moskitia area, where about a quarter of Honduras's remaining forests still stands; the commodities they produce include timber, cocoa, coffee, and rambutan (a fruit similar to lychee).

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.

«Cocoa Life is on a long - term journey to create a vibrant, strong cocoa supply chain while transforming the lives and livelihoods of farmers and their communities.

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

The Barry Callebaut Group, the world's leading manufacturer of high - quality chocolate and cocoa products, inaugurated three education projects in rural cocoa farming communities of Côte d'Ivoire.

And, by increasing the number of women in leadership roles in community groups and cooperatives, WCF is helping women gain visibility and empowerment in the cocoa industry.

The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) and Barry Callebaut have announced the completion of a primary school, community and farmer training centre in the western cocoa - growing region of Côte d'Ivoire.

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).

Mr Opuni said the project is vital to the carting of cocoa and other foodstuff from the farming communities to the commercial centres.

The Minister expressed worry about the incessant delay by some contractors working on some of the cocoa growing community roads, saying the Dunkwa Town roads and the Obuasi Junction to Dunkwa roads are woefully behind schedule.

As a farming community which engages in cocoa and crop farming and also share borders with la Cote d'Ivoire, the first lady called on the people of Bia West to join forces with government to work together to ensure that farms are not worked by any labour that is believed to be trafficked or involving child labour.

These include the University of Energy and Natural Resources, major highways, cocoa roads, Community Day Senior High Schools, Policlinics and CHPS compounds.

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 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.

The Cocoa Roads Project aims at improving road networks in cocoa communities with the view to ensuring access to remote cocoa areas as well as creating a congenial environment to promote the livelihoods of cocoa farmers.

Business News of Tuesday, 8 May 2018 Source: ghananewsagency.org File photo Significant progress is being made towards strengthening forest landscape governance, to protect five reserves in Ghana's main cocoa growing areas in the Western Region — Sui River, Suhuma, Tano - Ehuro, Tano - Suhien and Santomang, as the local communities begin to show ownership of the reserves.

Kotey, according to the Eastern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Ebenezer Tetteh, was arrested in his hideout in the cocoa growing community of Asikasu following intelligence picked up by the Eastern Regional Police Command.

He accused the government of failing to fulfil promises made to cocoa farmers to provide them with incentives such as housing, a pension scheme and feeder roads to cocoa growing communities.

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.

«This project combines critical forest and wildlife conservation work with a raft of social and community benefits, from sustainable cocoa production to the provision of saving and lending schemes,» commented Emily Woodfield, Head of Tropical Forest Landscapes Unit, RSPB.