World Cocoa Foundation

We promote collaboration amongst our members and beyond, building impactful solutions for a more sustainable cocoa sector.

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WCF, with the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, member companies and partners, has published a new methodology to support more consistent, evidence-based assessment across cocoa supply chains.
Read more: https://t.co/H0CoLSMpvZ

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Farmers should not carry the cost of protecting future cocoa supply alone. Governments, companies, financial partners, researchers and farmer organisations all have a role in making disease control possible on the ground.

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Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease is not only a farm problem.

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CSSVD is not only a farm problem. It is a supply chain risk.

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Europe can set the goal, but the cocoa value chain has to help build the route.
A target agreed in Brussels only works when farms, cooperatives, national systems and companies are part of the conversation.
MEP @jessikavanlee24 explains.

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Every cocoa supply chain carries a farm-level calculation: whether cocoa remains worth the work.
Drawing on insights from the ISEAL Global Sustainability Symposium, Dr. Coffie Mawuli explains why farmer economics shape cocoa resilience. Read now: https://t.co/z0HHfgJOn8

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Manufacturers need emissions data, traceability and proof of deforestation-free cocoa. Farmers face disease, low productivity and income uncertainty.
Tricia Brannigan of @HersheyCompany explains why ambitious goals need input from those expected to deliver them.

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Cocoa emissions cannot be counted properly with a rulebook made for agriculture.
The WCF Carbon Accounting Manual gives the sector a cocoa-specific method for measuring emissions, land-use change, agroforestry and removals.
Alexi Ernstoff from Quantis explains why that matters.

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Placing PM27 in Accra gives the global cocoa community an opportunity to discuss these Ghanaian realities with local producers and the institutions working with them every day. #WCFPM27

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Buyers know Ghanaian cocoa for consistency. That reputation starts long before the beans reach a port, with farmers managing trees and harvest, fermenting and drying beans.

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Ghana also raises the question of value. Its cocoa is used across the world, while more attention is turning to processing, services, skills and investment closer to the origin.

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Consumers want cocoa produced without deforestation, child labour, and with fair income for farmers. European regulation supports that.

At #WCFPM26, @StevenCollet from the Netherlands MFA spoke about what consuming markets, companies and origin countries need to build together.