2020 Partnership Meeting
The World Cocoa Foundation’s 2020 Partnership Meeting was held online on Wednesday, November 18 and Thursday, November 19.
The Partnership Meeting was the only global conference dedicated to cocoa sustainability in 2020 and focused on the theme:
Scaling Impact in Disruptive Times
The theme was addressed through four streams:
- Enabling environment: covered the European Union due diligence process, how business can contribute to build back better for sustainability, and winning models for sustainability partnerships.
- Prosperous farmers: with a deep dive into raising farmer’s income, we notably covered opportunities such as Farmer Development Plans and Financial Inclusion.
- Empowered communities: with a strong focus on strategies to fight child labor, we looked at impact investment and best outcomes in community empowerment investments.
- Healthy planet: we started with a keynote on climate action and covered landscape approaches; the link between agroforestry, living income, and climate; and payments for environmental services.
Attendees and speakers included high-level government officials, donors and multilateral organizations, top executives from cocoa and chocolate companies (such as WCF members and the Board of Directors), civil society organizations, subject matter experts, and cocoa producers as we went online to achieve transformative change in the cocoa supply chain through policy dialogue, joint learning, and knowledge sharing.
Thank you to our generous sponsors!
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Cocoa Contributor
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3pm UTC Partnership Meeting Preview: Key Findings of the 2020 Cocoa Barometer
Antonie Fountain – The VOICE Network
Friedel Huetz-Adams – SUEDWIND-Institute
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Draft Agenda - Subject to Change
Session plénière disponible en français / Plenaria estará disponible en español
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1.30pm UTC Message from Gold Sponsor Mondelēz
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Scaling Impact in Disruptive Times
Richard Scobey – President, World Cocoa Foundation
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Ending Poverty in Disruptive TimesProsperous Farmers
Franziska Ohnsorge – Manager, Prospects Group, The World Bank
Buddy Buruku – Partnership Meeting Host
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Nature-based Solutions for Climate ActionHealthy Planet
Zac Goldsmith – Minister for Pacific and the Environment, Government of the United Kingdom
Alexander Ferguson – Vice President for Communications and Membership, World Cocoa Foundation
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Fighting Child Labor in Cocoa: What’s Next?Empowered Communities
Nick Weatherill – Executive Director, International Cocoa Initiative
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3.50pm UTC Wellness Break
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4pm UTC Breakout Sessions
Enabling Environment
- Looking Back and Looking Forward: Building on CocoaAction Lessons Learned
Prosperous Farmers
- Raising Farmer’s Income: What Interventions have the Best Impact? Session en direct disponible en français
Empowered Communities
- Lasting Impact in Community-driven Development
Healthy Planet
- Changing Behavior for Climate Smart Cocoa?
- Landscape Approaches: From Concept to Scale
- Prosperous Farmers and Healthy Planet through Agroforestry
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Draft Agenda - Subject to Change
Session plénière disponible en français / Plenaria estará disponible en español
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1:15pm UTC Building Back Better for Sustainability
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez – CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility
Sunny Verghese – Chairman, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
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2pm UTC Keynote: European Union Dialogue on Sustainable CocoaEnabling Environment
Jutta Urpilainen – Commissioner for International Partnerships, European Commission
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European Union Dialogue on Sustainable CocoaEnabling Environment
Justin Adams – Executive Director, Tropical Forest Alliance
Aldo Cristiano – President, Caobisco
HE Abou Dosso – Ambassador, Head of the Mission to the European Union, Republic of Côte d’Ivoire
Heidi Hautala – Vice President, European Parliament
Harold Poelma – Chairman, European Cocoa Association
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3.10pm UTC Wellness Break
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3.20pm UTC What’s Next for the Dialogue on Living Income?Prosperous Farmers
Vincent Akomeah – Senior Research Manager, Ghana Cocoa Board
Stephanie Daniels – Senior Program Director, Agriculture & Development, Sustainable Food Lab
Cathy Pieters – Director of Cocoa Life, Mondelēz
Jordy Van Honk – Global Director, Agriculture Commodities, IDH -The Sustainable Trade Initiative
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4:20 pm UTC Leadership Voices
Musdalifah Machmud – Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Republic of Indonesia
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5pm UTC Breakout Sessions
Prosperous Farmers
- Financial Inclusion and Living Income
- Farmer Development Plans: Adoption and Living Income
- Let’s Talk About Farm Sizes – Session en direct disponible en français / Sesión en vivo disponible en español.
Empowered Communities
- Scaling Impact Investment to Empower Communities
- Protecting All Children At Risk: How To Scale Up Coverage and Impact? – Session en direct disponible en français
Healthy Planet
- Payment for Environmental Services: How Can It Work in Cocoa?
- Traceability: Fragmented Approaches, National Systems and Technology
- Protecting the Amazon With Cocoa –Sesión en vivo disponible en español
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2020 Partnership Meeting
The 2020 WCF Partnership Meeting focused on the theme “Scaling Impact in Disruptive Times” online. Download the 2020 Partnership Meeting Summary Report.
2019 Partnership Meeting
The 2019 WCF Partnership Meeting explored “Drivers of Change” in Berlin, Germany. Learn more. Download the 2019 Partnership Meeting Summary Report.
2018 Partnership Meeting
The 2018 WCF Partnership Meeting explored “The New Frontiers of Cocoa Sustainability” in São Paulo, Brazil. Learn more.
2017 Partnership Meeting
The 2017 WCF Partnership Meeting discussed the theme “Accelerating Sustainability through Technology and Innovation” to move forward the sustainability agenda for the cocoa sector in Washington, D.C.
2016 Partnership Meeting
The 2016 WCF Partnership Meeting was focused around “People, Planet, Profit in a Changing World” and was held in partnership with le Conseil du Café-Cacao in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
2015 Partnership Meeting
The 2015 WCF Partnership Meeting took place in Washington, D.C. around the theme “Proud of our Past, Focused on our Future”.
2014 Partnership Meeting
The 2014 WCF Partnership Meeting took place in Copenhagen, Denmark with the theme of,“Connecting Sustainability, Standards and Certification”.
2013 Partnership Meetings
The 2013 WCF Partnership Meetings took place in Washington, D.C., with the theme of, “Meeting Tomorrow’s Demand: Productivity, Quality, and Farmers’ Livelihood” and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2012 Partnership Meetings
The 2012 Partnership Meetings took place in Washington, D.C. and Zurich, Switzerland with the theme of, “Innovations in Cocoa Sustainability: People, Planet, Profit”.
2011 Partnership Meetings
The 2011 Partnership Meetings took place in San Francisco, USA with the theme, “Celebrating the Diversity of Cocoa Origins”, and Accra, Ghana with the theme of, “People, Planet, Profit: Envisioning the Future of Cocoa in Africa”.
2010 Partnership Meetings
The 2010 Partnership Meetings took place in Utrecht, Netherlands and Washington, D.C. with the theme, “Marking a Decade of Cocoa Sustainability”.
2009 Partnership Meetings
The 2009 Partnership Meetings took place in Washington, D.C. with the theme, “The Smallholder Cocoa Farmer in a Globalized World”, and Brussels, Belgium with the theme of, “Building the Capacity for a Sustainable Cocoa Sector”.
2008 Partnership Meetings
The 2008 Partnership Meetings took place in Guayaquil, Ecuador with the theme, “Lessons from Latin America – Invigorating the Cocoa Sector”, and Hamburg, Germany with the theme of, “Strategies and Practical Measures for Transforming the Cocoa Sector”.
2007 Partnership Meetings
The 2007 WCF Partnership Meetings took place in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Washington, D.C., with the theme of, “Sustainable Cocoa Farming: Building Tomorrow’s Best Practices Today”.
2006 Partnership Meetings
The 2006 Partnership Meetings took place in Brussels, Belgium with the theme, “Achieving and Measuring Sustainable Success at the Farm Level”, and Washington, D.C.
2005 Partnership Meetings
The 2005 Partnership Meetings took place in Brussels, Belgium and Washington, D.C. with the theme, “Challenges & Opportunities for Cocoa in Economic Development and Prosperity”.
2004 Partnership Meetings
The 2004 Partnership Meetings took place in Brussels, Belgium and Washington, D.C.
Download Materials
- 2020 Partnership Meeting Summary
- 2019 Partnership Meeting Summary
- 2018 Partnership Meeting Summary (English)
- 2018 Sumário Executivo do Partnership Meeting (Português)
- 2017 Partnership Meeting Summary
- 2016 Partnership Meeting Summary
- 2015 Partnership Meeting Summary
- 2014 Partnership Meeting Summary
- 2012 Partnership Meeting Washington, D.C. Day 1 Summary
- 2012 Partnership Meeting Washington, D.C. Day 2 Summary