Cocoa Barometer 2020: No Meaningful Progress Made in 20 Years of Business Model that Ensures Poverty for Farmers, Communities

December 1, 2020 Cocoa Barometer

After two decades of failed interventions across the cocoa sector, cocoa farming communities are still battling the effects of poverty, child labor and deforestation. That is the key finding of the 2020 Cocoa Barometer report.

Barry Callebaut: Supporting Ecuadorian Cocoa Farmers to Sustainably Increase Cocoa Yields

In this interview, Angela Gubser, Managing Director, Barry Callebaut Ecuador, describes how Cocoa Horizons has been successfully introduced to the world’s third largest producer of cocoa.

World Cocoa Foundation Statement on “Assessing Progress in Reducing Child Labor in Cocoa Production in Cocoa Growing Areas of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana” Report

October 20, 2020 World Cocoa Foundation

“As this report shows, there are today still too many children in cocoa farming doing work for which they are too young, or work that endangers them — and child labor has no place in the cocoa supply chain.”

Laying the Foundation For Further Growth of the Cocoa Value Chain in Ecuador

October 15, 2020 Barry Callebaut

Barry Callebaut laid the foundation for future growth of the cocoa value chain in Ecuador in a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a new, state-of-the-art, cocoa facility in Durán.

Barry Callebaut: Disclosing our Direct Cocoa Suppliers in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Cameroon

September 9, 2020 Barry Callebaut

Barry Callebaut has reached a new milestone in our plan to build a sustainable cocoa supply chain, we are disclosing our direct cocoa suppliers in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Cameroon.