{"id":5805,"date":"2020-05-28T08:12:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T08:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2020-05-28T08:12:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T08:12:29","slug":"hershey-doubling-down-on-commitment-to-ethical-cocoa-supply-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/hershey-doubling-down-on-commitment-to-ethical-cocoa-supply-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"HERSHEY DOUBLING DOWN ON COMMITMENT TO  ETHICAL COCOA SUPPLY CHAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hersheys.com\/en_us\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">Hershey Company<\/a> has announced an expansion of its<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehersheycompany.com\/en_us\/sustainability\/shared-business\/cocoa-for-good.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">\u00a0Cocoa For Good programme<\/a>\u00a0, committing to 100 percent direct-sourced cocoa in high-risk areas by 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This programme will include all of its cocoa sourced by its suppliers from Cote d\u2019Ivoire and Ghana. The expanded commitment will make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hersheys.com\/en_us\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">Hershey\u2019s<\/a> cocoa traceable from the farm to the first purchase point. It will also allow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hersheys.com\/en_us\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">Hershey<\/a> to know where all of its cocoa from West Africa is grown and how it is produced, providing more transparency for consumers and all stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2012, <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hersheys.com\/en_us\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">Hershey<\/a> committed to sourcing 100% certified and sustainable cocoa by 2020. The company reached its goal in January 2020. <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hersheys.com\/en_us\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">Hershey<\/a> launched its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehersheycompany.com\/en_us\/sustainability\/shared-business\/cocoa-for-good.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">Cocoa For Good  programme<\/a> in April 2018, furthering its cocoa efforts by 2030 to nourish children, empower youth, build prosperous communities and preserve natural ecosystems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Jeff King, Senior Director of Global Sustainability and Social Impact by purchasing all cocoa as certified and sustainable, the company directly support higher incomes for farmers and improve labor and environmental standards. He added that by transitioning to 100% direct cocoa sourcing for high-risk areas, the company has more transparency into its cocoa supply chain and enables <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hersheys.com\/en_us\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">Hershey<\/a> to provide more support to farmers and scale-up programs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the world\u2019s cocoa comes from West Africa, where poverty is the biggest cause of labor issues. Cocoa farmers have challenges such as a lack of local infrastructure, the impacts of climate change on agriculture, and the ability to find workers for small family farms. So to make a transformational change to create a sustainable cocoa supply chain and to overcome the challenges of how cocoa is bought and sold requires engaging and collaborating with stakeholders across sectors such as farmers, government, suppliers, NGOs, and peers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hershey Company has announced an expansion of its Cocoa For Good programme , committing to 100 percent direct-sourced cocoa in high-risk areas by 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1701],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}