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RESPONSIBLE SOURCING AND SUSTAINABLE SOURCING: KEY DIFFERENCES

Brief synopsis: In their simplest forms, Responsible Sourcing requires meeting or complying with accepted levels of ethical or responsible practices in areas such as human rights or pollution, whereas Sustainable Sourcing goes beyond compliance to engage and improve the conditions of sustainability that can include areas such as dignified livelihoods or climate-smart practices. Responsible Sourcing …

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REPORT SHOWS COCOA RELATED DEFORESTATION NEEDS A CONTEXT AWARE SOLUTION

Leave a Comment / Cocoa, Cocoa Sustainability and Deforestation / By Nick Baskett

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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MONDELĒZ ON TRACK TO ACHIEVE 2025 ESG GOALS

Leave a Comment / Cocoa, Cocoa Sustainability and Deforestation, Chocolate Companies / By Peter Baskett

Mondelēz International recently released their annual Human Rights Due Diligence and Modern Slavery report for 2021, in which they claim to have made strong progress towards their 2025 ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) goals. The company has a number of social and sustainability goals to achieve by 2025, with the intention to “prevent, identify, and address …

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STARBUCKS HAS JOINED SWISSCO, THE PLATFORM FOR SUSTAINABLE COCOA

Leave a Comment / Cocoa, Coffee, Cocoa Sustainability and Deforestation, Coffee Sustainability and Deforestation / By Nick Baskett

The sustainability platform SWISSCO announced that Starbucks had become their latest member, raising the profile of the organisation. Starbucks may sell a lot of coffee, but it doesn’t actually consider itself a coffee company. They say they want to be a customer’s Third Place’, a definition which expands their ambition beyond coffee. In fact, according …

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BEYOND ESG REPORTING: THE FUTURE OF SUSTAINABILITY IS PERFORMANCE

Leave a Comment / Coffee, Coffee Sustainability and Deforestation, Cocoa, Cocoa Sustainability and Deforestation / By Committee on Sustainability Assessment (COSA)

A large Harris Poll survey 1 of global corporate CEOs for Google finds that fully two-thirds of them question how genuine or effective their sustainability efforts are. Most admit they do not even have realistic sustainability metrics or tools in place. The value of ESG scores has always been limited. Many can be ambiguously interpreted …

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BARRY CALLEBAUT, PROVA READY FOR COCOA INITIATIVE’S NEXT PHASE IN MADAGASCAR

Leave a Comment / Cocoa, Cocoa Sustainability and Deforestation / By Dhanliza Cellona

Swiss chocolate producer Barry Callebaut and vanilla supplier Prova, supported by the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH), begin the second phase of their joint project to support vanilla farmers in Madagascar. The two companies will conduct training to boost productivity and improve the quality of Cocoa and vanilla while also funding the local communities through social, …

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OLAMS NEW TERRASCOPE HAS POTENTIAL TO IMPROVE FLAWED SCOPE 3 REPORTING

Leave a Comment / Cocoa, Coffee, Cocoa Sustainability and Deforestation, Coffee Sustainability and Deforestation / By Nick Baskett

Olam launched Terrascope, a new business with a wonderfully catchy name that Aims to help businesses identify and report their carbon emissions. Underlying the obligatory Scrabble board of buzzwords is the potential for a serious tool. The platform itself is a software as a service. There is no product to install, and it is implemented …

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REGISTRATION FOR RCI’S 2022 CHOCOLATE SUMMER BOOT CAMP NOW OPEN

Leave a Comment / Cocoa, Cocoa Sustainability and Deforestation / By Nick Baskett

Slots are filling up fast for the Chocolate Boot Camp to be held from 8 to 11 August 2022 at Fascia’s Chocolates In Waterbury, Connecticut. The summer course will be hosted by Retail Confectioners International (RCI). RCI members and non-members are both welcome to enrol in the four-day course, where they can learn practical techniques …

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FERRERO LATEST CFI REPORT CLAIMS SUCCESS IN TRACEABILITY

Leave a Comment / Cocoa, Cocoa Sustainability and Deforestation / By Peter Baskett

Ferrero has released their 2020-21 Cocoa & Forests Initiative (CFI) Progress Report, highlighting a number of achievements, such as improved transparency in the Cocoa value chain. In their latest report, the company admits to facing additional challenges resulting from the pandemic but states that they are nonetheless on track with their targets. The bulk of …

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EASTER SCORECARD AND ROTTEN EGG AWARDS

2 Comments / Cocoa, Cocoa Sustainability and Deforestation, Chocolate Companies / By Nick Baskett

Its Easter which means time for another Egg Award ceremony from be slavery free. A few weeks ago we were chatting with the people behind the awards, Fuzz and Carolyn Kitto, who couldn’t have been nicer people. They explained to us how the award started and what a struggle it was to find any company …

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KOA MAKES FARMER PAYMENTS TRANSPARENT WITH BLOCKCHAIN

2 Comments / Cocoa, Cocoa Farming and Agriculture, Cocoa Sustainability and Deforestation / By Nick Baskett

Using blockchain technology to support a transparent supply chain is not new, but Koa is taking it to the next step, by adding payment transparency into the service. Koa is a Swiss-Ghanaian startup focused on products around the Cocoa fruit, capitalising on the waste and turning it into products they can sell to industry. They …

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AGROFORESTRY STARTUP GETS $500M FOR COCOA & COFFEE

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AXA SA, a French Insurance and Financial Services company, based in Paris, and Engie SA, an energy company, is co-investing US$500m over the next six years in The Shared Wood, a French Agro-forestry startup that will produce sustainable Cocoa and Coffee under the Tagline ‘We Protect and Restore Nature’. We protect and Restore Nature The …

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