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Dominica grinding to take its cocoa to internationally competitive level
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LONDON, UK – The Commonwealth of Dominica seeks to compete as the best cocoa producer in the international market by developing better agricultural practices...
Cocoa, chocolate industry donates $835,000 to help farmers fight Covid-19
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WASHINGTON, U.S. – Global cocoa and chocolate companies are donating $835,000 to help cocoa farmers and their families fight the spreading Covid-19 by supporting...
Cocobod signs Memorandum of Understanding with Solidaridad West Africa
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ACCRA, Ghana — The Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding with the not-for-profit organization, Solidaridad West Africa to implement initiatives...
Findings on forced labour in cocoa in the 2018 Global Slavery Index
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The Walk Free Foundation, an Australian organisation dedicated to ending contemporary slavery and human trafficking, issued the 2018 version of their “Global Slavery Index”...
Taking steps to revive the the once flourishing Cocoa Industry in Nigeria
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The 2015/2016 oil price plunge was the driving factor that led to Nigeria falling into a recession, due to the country’s heavy reliance on...
Beyond Business as Usual
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What happens when the world’s four largest cocoa and chocolate companies and an international child and youth development foundation join forces? Nothing less than achieving...
Cocoa industry could lose a generation of growers, farmer warns
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Unless the international cocoa industry does more to involve farmers it will risk losing a generation of cocoa growers, Fairtrade farmer Portin Bley from Ivory Cooast told the London Chocolate Forum ...
Cocoa industry reform needed to stop farmers from being left behind
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GENEVA, Switzerland - Cocoa farmers in some of the world's poorest countries are scarcely benefitting from a value chain which sees goods made from...
Ghana seeks to revive coffee industry
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Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama has announced that government would revamp the coffee industry as a supplement to cocoa production. He announced that government...
Reducing child labor is a shared responsibility
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In response to the 2013/2014 Survey Research on Child Labor in West African Cocoa-Growing Areas Report, the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) today issued the...