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MIGHTY EARTH SUPPORTS EU DECISION TO STRENGTHEN DEFORESTATION REGULATIONS

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During the European Cocoa Association Forum, which took place in Rome this week, many participants welcomed the new legislation put forward by the European Commission, requiring more stringent traceability rules. Among them was the global environmental advocacy organisation Mighty Earth.  The group noted that as a result of the anticipated EU law on traceability, Cocoa […]

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REPORT SHOWS COCOA RELATED DEFORESTATION NEEDS A CONTEXT AWARE SOLUTION

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Summary A report looking at the environmental risks of cocoa expansion in west Africa wants to help policymakers and organisations make better decisions by considering the context of their policy to their geography. In other words, environmental strategy has no ‘one size fits all’. Land sparing and land sharing is promoted in cocoa sustainability initiatives. Highly suitable

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FAIRTRADE PARTNERS WITH EARTHWORM FOUNDATION TO TACKLE DEFORESTATION

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Fairtrade International and Fairtrade Africa have teamed up with the non-profit organisation, the Earthworm Foundation, in a partnership that is geared towards monitoring and assessing the environment for deforestation and other potential risks. The collaboration will launch its first project using the Earthworm Foundation and Airbus’ own satellite monitoring tool, Starling. The technology will allow

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OLAM, MONDELĒZ, P4F AND THE NATURE CONSERVANCY TACKLE DEFORESTATION IN PARÁ

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Olam Food Ingredients, OFI are developing their relationship further with Mondelēz International with a new initiative in Brazil. The two companies which had previously announced a joint venture to develop the worlds largest sustainable Cocoa farm in Indonesia has now joined forces with Partnerships for Forests (P4F) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to create a

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SUSTAINABILITY AND DEFORESTATION IN THE COCOA INDUSTRY

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Preface This article set out to capture the essence of the major problems around deforestation in the industry. In hindsight, that may have been naively ambitious. Much of it represents my own learning journey, no doubt with some way further to go. There is a lot of data to trawl through, notwithstanding data from private

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NESTLÉ ADDS SUPPORT FOR EU DEFORESTATION PLAN

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Nestlé today joined other business leaders across the food industry to support ambitious action (pdf, 500Kb) by the European Union (EU) to increase supply chain transparency and traceability for commodities that may be linked to deforestation.

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CARGILL SEE PROGRESS IN FIGHTING DEFORESTATION

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As part of Cargill’s “Protect our Planet Strategic Action Plan”, when cocoa arrives at a Ghanain warehouse, the yield is weighed and then assigned a barcode correlating to the farmer that grew the cocoa. Coupled with GPS technology, Cargill can then assess the forest risk of that specific farmer by assessing factors like protected forest

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CREATING A MARKET TO COMBAT DEFORESTATION

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Charles Karangwa, restoration coordinator for the International Union for Conservation of Nature, works to rehabilitate forests that have been degraded throughout Africa. Deforestation has been a recurring problem around the globe but Karangwa is looking for new economic motivations for farmers to save these ecosystems. The ecosystems near Africa’s Great Lakes region bear similarities to

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