Sustainability Principles & Goals

The World Cocoa Foundation’s sustainability principles and goals were developed to guide industry efforts and prioritize the Foundation’s development projects in Africa, Southeast Asia and the Americas. Developed through discussions among Foundation members, producing country representatives and program partners, the sustainability principles and goals are intended to help guide economic and social development as well as environmental stewardship in cocoa-growing communities around the world. More than 50 World Cocoa Foundation partner organizations provided input.

The World Cocoa Foundation’s three sustainability principles and eleven goals commit the Foundation and its members to work toward:

• Profit: Improved and more equitable economic returns for farmers
  • Productive farming practices are in place
  • Good farm management through diversification
  • Efficient and transparent cocoa value chain
  • Farmers and their communities receive equitable returns over time
• People: Healthy and thriving cocoa-farming households and communities
  • National and international labor standards are implemented, with no worst forms of child labor
  • Farming practices are safe
  • Strong, effective farmer organizations are formed
  • Communities are empowered
• Planet: Responsible, sound environmental stewardship in cocoa-farming communities
  • Soil and water are used responsibly
  • Biodiversity benefits and environmental assets are understood, respected and valued
  • Agrochemicals are used rationally and integrated pest management is implemented