Sentences with phrase «rainforest cocoa farm»

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US nutrition bar specialist Balance Bar has launched a dark chocolate line using cocoa sourced from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms.

The Rainforest Alliance certification assures consumers that our cocoa beans are grown on sustainably managed farms that...

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.

Added benefit: the shade requirements for Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee and cocoa farms also happen to produce better tasting beans (who says you can't be both virtuous and indulgent?).

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.

But as one of 8,000 Sulawesian smallholder cocoa farmers participating in a climate - smart program of the Rainforest Alliance and Olam Indonesia (under Millennium Challenge Account — Indonesia), Syamsuddin soon came to understand the new reality of a changing climate, and the urgent need to adapt his farming practices.

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.

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.

As a summer analyst with the Rainforest Alliance's Sustainable Finance Initiative, I conducted a two - month investigation of crop diversification as an intervention strategy for smallholder cocoa farming in West Africa, with a focus on Ghana.

Sales of Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee in 2008 totaled 62,296 metric tons, or over one million bags, and sales of cocoa from certified farms grew from an estimated $ 4.5 million to $ 16.75 million in the last year.

It has been brought to our attention that Clif Bar & Company announced last spring that they were partnering with Rainforest Alliance to source 100 percent of the cocoa for their signature CLIF Bar from Rainforest Alliance Certified Farms.

By committing to sourcing cocoa from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms, Balance Bar is giving consumers who care about sustainability in cocoa farming an option.

Dagoba Organic Chocolate was founded on a love for the environment, which shaped its decision to use organic and sustainably - grown cocoa from farms that conserve and reinvigorate the rainforest.

From cocoa to coffee beans, Lidl sells a host of products from Rainforest Alliance Certified ™ farms across Europe.

Rainforest Alliance certification currently encompasses over 240,000 cocoa farms, totaling 2,450,000 acres of cropland in 15 countries.

An estimated 5.2 percent of the world's coffee, 14.5 percent of cocoa, 14 percent of tea and 20 percent of global banana exports come from Rainforest Alliance - certified farms, representing over 1.1 million farms and 7.5 million hectares of farmland.

One such approach is paying farmer premiums for certified cocoa which, in general, is the case for cocoa grown on Rainforest Alliance Certified ™ farms.

The Rainforest Alliance is providing cocoa farmers across Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia with the tools and incentives to farm sustainably.

Adrien Koffi Kouadio owns a Rainforest Alliance Certified ™ cocoa farm in Paul Kru, Côte d'Ivoire.