SUSTAINABLE COFFEE CHALLENGE REVEALED NEW PARTNERS
The Sustainable Coffee Challenge has revealed 14 new partners.
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ORGANISATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE COCOA JOIN FORCES
GISCO, Beyond Chocolate, and SWISSCO have joined on supporting important communities in the cocoa supply chain.
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CFI ANNOUNCED COCOA TREE PLANTING
The Cocoa and Forests Initiative (CFI) announced that four million trees are going to be planted in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.
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NESTLÈ BOOSTS REFORESTATION IN THE AMERICAS TO ABSORB MORE CARBON
Nestlé announced it would plant at the very least three million trees in key sourcing locations in the Americas by 2021. It is the first phase of a broader reforestation initiative, which forms part of the company’s plan to scale up actions in agriculture and deploy nature-based solutions to absorb more carbon. This move will
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NESTLÉ INVESTS $45 MILLION A YEAR IN COCOA SUSTAINABILITY
Nestlé is spending 45 million Swiss francs (£35.17 million) a year on efforts to source cocoa sustainably, the food company said, also citing progress in reducing child labour in its West African supply chain. The company, which has spent about 220 million francs over the past ten years on efforts to tackle child labour and
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HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS KILLING COFFEE
A rich cup of coffee is one of life’s little pleasures, but it will become more difficult and expensive to obtain in the near future. Coffee is among the crops under threat from climate change. An extensive study published in January found that 60% of wild coffee species — or 75 of 124 plants — are
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INVESTIGATION LINKS CHOCOLATE TO DESTRUCTION OF NATIONAL PARKS IN WEST AFRICA
An investigation by Mighty Earth, ‘Chocolate’s Dark Secret,’ has found that a large amount of the cocoa used in chocolate produced by Mars, Nestlé, Hershey’s, Godiva and other major chocolate companies was ‘grown illegally’ in national parks and other protected areas in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. “The report documents how in several national parks and
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