The Assessment of KOA’s Transparency system continuous The other issue revealed is how Koa gains and the farmer loses out on the currency depreciation: As noted in Graph 1 (part 1), The Ghana Cedi depreciated/US$ appreciated by 55%. This means the income earned by farmers from Koa lost 55% of its value in just a […]
We were invited to pose some questions to Megan Willis, Unilever’s Head of Sustainable Sourcing, following Unilever’s announcement of their AWA programme last month. In case you missed it, Magnum, part of the UK giant, Unilever, released news last month about their programme to help empower women in the Cocoa industry. Working with a 3D
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For three days, from 27 to 29 October 2022, the coffee industry from Italy and beyond gathered in Trieste. Triestespresso is a business event and a place to meet old friends and make new contacts in the industry. When I arrived, I was worried that my lack of passable Italian would make me an outsider.
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CHUAO – BEST IN CLASS CACAO Chuao is known as the most mythical, famous and expensive cacao worldwide. Only a limited quantity of beans are produced each year in the mountains surrounding the village of Chuao. These beans are -some claim- among the best beans you could hope to discover. 450 YEARS OF HISTORY OF
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COCOA NEWSCAST – 26 OCT, 2022 Read More »
Summary Ex-factory chocolate prices have increased rapidly in the European Union during the past year. Prices have increased by about nearly 6% from August 2021 to August 2022, according to EUROSTAT. By the same token, cocoa futures prices have declined by 13% and 9% respectively on the London (ICE Futures Europe) and New York (ICE
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About Bio-Bean We’ve written about Bio Bean’s previous B-Corp award and its innovative approach to coffee recycling. Last week, the company announce their first impact report, delivered graphically here, and also in a downloadable PDF. In summary, Bio Bean is: The world’s largest recycler of coffee grounds. About creating change: at scale, with longevity and
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Tuta and Juliana Aquino are Brazilian natives that own and run a Cacao Origin located in the State of Bahia-Brazil, where they produce speciality cacao beans since 2016 with a small yearly production of 20 Metric Tons. Besides providing their Vale Potumuju beans to local Bean to Bar makers, they also started, in 2018, their
STARTING AND DEVELOPING THE BAHIA CACAO BUSINESS Read More »
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Koa is a Swiss-Ghanaian business that focuses on creating a new revenue generation stream for cocoa farmers by processing cocoa pulp into juice, concentrate and Powder. Whereas cocoa farmers rely on the cocoa pulp for cocoa bean fermentation, its excesses lead to food waste and elongation of the fermentation process. So, harvesting the excess cocoa
