In 2017, hundreds of hectares of cocoa plantations were destroyed by the activities of miners across the country,
with cocoa farms in the Eastern, Western and Ashanti regions being the worst affected.
They work
with a cocoa farm in Ecuador that we are proud to support, which is Organic Certified and has high labor standards and benefits for farmers such as doctor visits and professional development.
Not exact matches
The future of
cocoa farming, and
with it the future of chocolate looks bleak.
I really like your articles, funding for farmers is basically not an option in El Salvador central america i have 230ha
farm and have tried to get funds for a
cocoa forestry combined project
with no luck, most of the neighboring
farm owners to my property barely read or write so if i cant get there having acces to internet and written to almost every site, naturebank, root, etc..
Building on this work, the Sustainable Finance Initiative, along
with other partners, will test the development and the implementation of a small - scale multi-party technical assistance and investment facility that will eventually be scaled - up to finance 10,000
cocoa farm rejuvenation projects across Côte d'Ivoire.
With support from the Innovation Fund, the Sustainable Finance Initiative conducted market research and designed its
Cocoa Rejuvenation Finance Project, a multi-phase, multi-partner sustainable
cocoa finance project initiated in Côte d'Ivoire to help smallholder
cocoa farmers gain access to long - term loans in order to rejuvenate their
farms and boost yields.
We are proud to partner
with organic
cocoa farms around the island.
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.
We will also reach out to governments in origin countries and work
with donors to create an enabling environment for the sustainable replanting of
cocoa farms.
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With ongoing challenges in
cocoa farming, we are focusing on -LSB-...]
With the precious support of the World Bank and Valrhona, the World
Cocoa Foundation, the Trade for Sustainable Development (T4SD) project of the International Trade Centre (ITC), Google Food Lab (GFL), Future Food Institute (FFI) and the Business School Lausanne (BSL) invite you to a three - day hackathon (October 23 - 24) to collaborate on creating, prototyping and birthing hardware and software tools which address some of the greatest challenges of
cocoa farming.
o Conference Programming: The National Chocolate Show will ignite discussions
with industry leaders for the advancement of the chocolate industry through empowering conference programming on
cocoa farming sustainability, improvement of the livelihood of
cocoa farmers, trend spotting, fine flavor exploration, new product development, business insights, and more.
Customize your
cocoa with whipped cream, sprinkles, marshmallows, peppermint, chocolate chips, and more when you warm up at the Smolak
Farms Hot
Cocoa Bar (North Andover)
Nestle, in partnership
with the chocolate industry as a whole, has been working to address labor issues on
cocoa farms for several years and is committed to finding lasting solutions.
Speaking under the theme, «Youth in
Cocoa, Sustainable
Cocoa Production» Dr. Oppong, explained that as part of the initiative, «Young
cocoa farmers are being supplied
with free high - yielding, early bearing hybrid
cocoa seedlings, fertilizers and other
farming inputs across the
cocoa growing regions».
With the new program, a
cocoa farmer who has 100 hectares of
cocoa farm and was therefore entitled to 750 bags (7.5 bags of granular fertilizer per hectare) is expected to pay GH cents 60,000 for the same 750.
With the implementation of the adopted interventions including free fertilizer distribution, mass cocoa spraying, free distribution of hybrid seedlings, cocoa farms rehabilitation together with other programmes being implemented in the cocoa industry, premium quality cocoa beans would be supplied to the local and world mark
With the implementation of the adopted interventions including free fertilizer distribution, mass
cocoa spraying, free distribution of hybrid seedlings,
cocoa farms rehabilitation together
with other programmes being implemented in the cocoa industry, premium quality cocoa beans would be supplied to the local and world mark
with other programmes being implemented in the
cocoa industry, premium quality
cocoa beans would be supplied to the local and world markets.
According to the head of Ghana Cocoaboard's Taskforce in the Jomoro District Mr Mathias Iddrisu Mumuni, the Taskforce were tipped off a week earlier that Mr Paul Essien together
with his executives were going to spray all
cocoa farms in the district because the Government had failed to do so.
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.
President Mahama, said the Ghana COCOBOD will assist interested farmers
with free seedlings and inputs to start the
cocoa farming.
Outside these lands, growers should move toward shade -
cocoa farming, which keeps some of the large existing trees,
with cocoa plants interspersed among them.
PREMIUM PRODUCT: Caribbean Cacao
Cocoa butter is responsibly grown on a small family
farm in the Dominican Republic; Our close relationship
with the producers cuts out the middle man and insures you raw, pure, natural, and the highest quality
cocoa butter available anywhere.
The route runs through the Atlantic Forest, until we get to São Francisco
Farm, where there will be a tour to the local
cocoa planting and processing activities,
with the opportunity of tasting it right from the tree.
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.
At its most basic level, sustainability starts
with cocoa farmers; but without the support of the entire the supply chain, scalability at
farm level is not possible.
The Rainforest Alliance is providing
cocoa farmers across Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia
with the tools and incentives to
farm sustainably.
The public ledger could also be a way to demonstrate its commitment to ethically sourced ingredients for menu - items,
with the ability to track products such as coffee and
cocoa from
farm to table.