For the Media - Press Releases
General
- WCF Partners Join Together to Dicuss "Best Practices" in Cocoa Farming
- World Cocoa Foundation Selected by USDA as Partner for Prestigious Norman E. Borlaug Fellows Program
- WCF Announces New Officers and Executive Committee Members
- USAID and World Cocoa Foundation Sign Agreement to Support Education in West African Cocoa Communities
- Aid Organizations, World Cocoa Foundation Partner to Improve Cocoa Farmer Incomes
- WCF announces first half 2007 activities, welcomes new members
- World Cocoa Foundation Partners with USAID to Improve Education in West African Cocoa Communities
- World Cocoa Foundation to Boost Farmer Safety on West African Cocoa Farms
- New, Expanded Programs to Help Cocoa Farming Families, Communities in 2007
- Area Students Learn All About Cocoa at Embassy of Ghana
- U.S. Government Holds Forum on Cocoa Farming Labor Issues in West Africa
- “Healthy Communities” Program Expands Work to Improve Life for Cocoa Farm Families
- Improved Incomes, Labor Practices and Access to Education Strengthen Cocoa Farming Communities
- ACCESO holds the first Andean Regional Workshop on Cocoa Technical Training
- Chocolate Industry Expands Sustainable Cocoa Farming Efforts
- WCF Announces 2005 Partnership Awards
- Launch of the Program: Andean Countries Cocoa Export Support Opportunity - ACCESO
- "Initiative for African Cocoa Communities” a Partnership for Positive, Meaningful Change
- World Cocoa Foundation
- Cocoa Industry Seeks to Protect Supplies Via World Cocoa Foundation
- Chocolate Supplies Are Ample
Cocoa Articles
- IITA Scientist, Okafor, Receives World Cocoa Foundation Award, The Guardian Nigeria, November 4, 2007
- Sourcing Hope, Candy Industry, September 2007
- Planting to revive Liberia cocoa farms after war, Reuters Africa, July 16 2007
- World Cocoa Foundation: Exerpts of 2006 Partnership Meeting, Manufacturing Confectioner, November 2006.
- Sustainable Tree Crop Program Boosts Africa's Cocoa Crop, Voice of America News, November 2006
- Special Report: The International Cocoa Initiative, Ethical Corporation, July 2006.
- Voices from the Field: Sustainable Cocoa Farming, World Cocoa Foundation, February 2005.
- Sustainable Tree Crops Program Alliance: Helping the Smallholder Farmer in Africa, Global Development Alliance, January 2006.
- Chocolate Companies Help West African Farmers Improve Harvest, USAID Frontlines, September 2005.
Child Labor
- Most Ivorian child cocoa workers not slaves -- govt, Reuters, December 3, 2007
- 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. US Department of State.
- Joint Statement from U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, Representative Eliot Engel and the Chocolate/Cocoa Industry on Efforts to Address the Worst Forms of Child Labor in Cocoa Growing
- WCF and Chocolate Industry Pledge to Support Vocational Education in Schools in the Ivory Coast