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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West African cocoa has been scorned by craft chocolate makers, but a project in Sierra Leone and one potentially taking off in Liberia are proving that the region has plenty to offer to the bean to bar market One could sometimes be forgiven for thinking that the cocoa in almost all bean to bar or
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The union struggle at Starbucks continues. Unions have formed across the US, and the company has retaliated by closing some stores, citing various reasons, including health and safety, although these same stores coincidentally appear to be the ones supporting unionisation. Recently, the company has filed charges with the National Labour Relations Board against union officials,
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A Federal court filing in California reveal a Starbucks Corp. customer settled her claims alleging the coffeehouse chain misrepresented hot chocolate as being made from “ethically sourced” ingredients despite the use of child slave labour. In May last year, a lawsuit was filed in California against Starbucks for the labelling of their hot chocolate products,
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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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One of the world’s largest chocolate companies, Cargill, is now leveraging its rainforest alliance certification from the Cocoa Research Institute for its marketing of pure cocoa butter as a natural product. Referring to the Cargill cocoa promise™, the company is positioning this as a premium product Through their Cargill beauty division. Sustainable Cocoa is sourced
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Cocoa farming is predominately carried out by smallholder farmers. In Liberia, 80% of farmers that own larger and producing farms are owned by old aged farmers ranging from 50-75 years.
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The President of New Juaben Corporative Cocoa Farmers Union, Mr Thomas Adjei, has said Ghana risks losing her spot as the second largest cocoa-producing country in the world due to illegal mining
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Cargill Inc and a Nestle SA subsidiary, are accused of knowingly helping perpetuate slavery at Côte d’Ivoire cocoa farms.
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