A Case for Infrastructure to Help End Child Labor in Cocoa
Consider what your life would be like if you could not flip a switch and light a room, or turn… Read More
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To Understand Child Labor, We Need to Understand Everyone’s Labor
In 2010, the chocolate industry set a 10-year goal of reducing the worst forms of child labor in cocoa farming… Read More
International Cocoa Initiative Calls for Massive Expansion of Effort in Fight Against Child Labor to Reach All Those in Need
Child labor in cocoa remains a significant challenge despite extensive efforts to tackle it over the past two decades. While… Read More
Unique Flavors with a Positive Impact: The Future of Ecuadorian Amazonian Cocoa Beans
The Ecuadorian Amazon, with an area four times the size of Belgium, is the home of 245,000 inhabitants of 10… Read More
How Colombia’s Cocoa-Growing Regions are Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic
When we talk about chocolate in Colombia, we have in mind a food that is an essential part of our… Read More
To Stop Child Labor, First Address Poverty
Despite strenuous efforts by governments and companies, child labor remains a persistent problem in supply chains across the world. The… Read More
The Cost of Cash to Ghana’s Cocoa Sector
Samuel has been a cocoa farmer for 12 years. Since the end of the Akuafo cheque system, he had… Read More
Following in the Footsteps of COVID-19 for the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus: Contact Tracing, Testing, and Treatment
Five months after the first lock downs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, one key lesson learned is that aggressive contact… Read More
A Chocolate Renaissance: Elevating Chocolate to Create a Sustainable Future
Chocolate, a product with a rich, long history, is on the verge of a renaissance as it is starting to… Read More
Is Destruction the Inevitable Fate of Our Forests?
The world lost 3.8 million hectares (9.3 million acres) of tropical primary forests last year – an area nearly the… Read More