How Education Creates Resilience One Cocoa-Growing Community at a Time
Cocoa-growing communities face many challenges, ranging from a lack of basic services and infrastructure, to food insecurity and limited access… Read More
Blogs
Biodiversity Wins on Cocoa Farms with Diverse Trees and Forested Landscapes
Cocoa is grown in some of the most biodiverse regions of the planet, making cocoa farmers and supply chains important… Read More
New Report: Expanding Access to Finance for Farming Communities
Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) are a means of giving more farmers access to financial services and securing their… Read More
Shaded Cocoa Can Protect Forests: Here’s What It Takes
Recent research led by MOCCA, CATIE and ICRAF documents the conditions linking cocoa farming to reforestation and… Read More
Sustainable Cocoa and #GenerationRestoration
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) this month launched the decade of ecosystem restoration. “Just as we… Read More
Savings Groups Empower Children in Cocoa Too
Thirty six-year-old Comfort Agoloso is a cocoa farmer from Akuapim, in the Mankranso cocoa district in Ghana, and a VSLA-CHILD… Read More
The Promise of Sustainable Brazilian Cocoa
When you look at what Henrique Souza has achieved it shows the promise of cocoa in Brazil. The farmer in… Read More
The Power of Art to Raise Deforestation Awareness
Magnum recently unveiled a unique arts and radio collaboration as part of its announcement of a large-scale agroforestry project in… Read More
Reducing Deforestation and Raising Incomes through Cocoa Agroforestry
Can agroforestry truly reduce deforestation? Does it increase farmer incomes? According to recent research, the answers to these questions are… Read More
A Strong and Resilient Foundation on Which to Build a Transformative Future
The launch of the International Cocoa Initiative’s (ICI) 2020 Annual Report during the International Year for the Elimination of Child… Read More