WASHINGTON, USA – The World Cocoa Foundation today announced the date and location for its 2024 Partnership Meeting, the leading global event on cocoa sustainability. The conference will take place in the Beurs van Berlage (Old Stock Exchange) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from February 6 – 7, 2024.
The membership organization said that next year the Partnership Meeting would be kicking off Amsterdam Cocoa Week with the CHOCOA conference taking place in the same venue from February 7 -11, 2024. This will offer participants a full week of events related to cocoa sustainability to kick off the 2024 cocoa events calendar.
Chris Vincent, President of WCF, hailed the Amsterdam Cocoa week as an opportunity for cooperation and collaboration. “Opening the week with our Partnership Meeting and closing with CHOCOA will be an exciting start to 2024 allowing the global cocoa sector to further our partnerships and strategies to achieve the transition to sustainable cocoa.”
CHOCOA is an annual marketplace for cocoa and chocolate for quality and sustainability: A place where cocoa and chocolate are traded, new business contacts are made, and existing ones reinforced. Where research results, new innovations, ideas, and concepts are shared.
Jack Steijn, co-founder of CHOCOA, is excited about the two events forming the headlines of the Amsterdam Cocoa Week. “Amsterdam has always been one of the most important hubs in the cocoa sector, for transport, warehousing, trade, and processing. It will now also be one of the most important hubs for discussing and designing sustainability.”
Additional information can be found on the WCF website.
About The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF)
The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) is an international membership organisation representing the global cocoa sector. Its members include farmer cooperatives, cocoa processors, chocolate manufacturers, supply chain companies, and other companies worldwide. WCF represents more than 80% of the global cocoa sector.
WCF’s vision is to be a catalyst for a thriving, healthy and equitable cocoa value chain that is collaborating to improve farmer income, reverse deforestation, and combat child labour. WCF’s unique position at the centre of the cocoa and chocolate sector enables it to create strategic relationships and collaborative programmes with cocoa farming communities, governments, and civil society, which deliver transformative impact and systemic reform.
