{"id":6928,"date":"2020-07-14T07:45:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T07:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/?p=6928"},"modified":"2021-01-01T16:05:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T16:05:13","slug":"organisations-for-sustainable-cocoa-join-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/organisations-for-sustainable-cocoa-join-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"ORGANISATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE COCOA JOIN FORCES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The German Initiative on Sustainable Cocoa (GISCO)<\/a>, Belgian platform Beyond Chocolate<\/a>, and the Swiss Platform for Sustainable Cocoa (SWISSCO)<\/a> have combined forces to support important communities in the cocoa supply chain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organisations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), under which they would bring together a large part of the national cocoa and chocolate industry, retailers, civil society organisations, research institutions, and representatives of the respective national government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The platforms want to stimulate efforts to combat the key issues in the cocoa industry by cooperating. These include eliminating the worst forms of child labour, achieving a living income for the cocoa farmers and their families, improving the transparency and traceability in the cocoa supply chain, and stopping the deforestation linked to cocoa production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three countries account for about 19% of the global cocoa imports, mainly sourced from West Africa, and 11% of the worldwide cocoa consumption. In January 2018, the German Initiative on Sustainable Cocoa and the Swiss Platform already signed a MoU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This agreement also includes the multi-stakeholder initiative Beyond Chocolate, established in Belgium in December 2018. One of the agreement’s foundations is the adapted monitoring system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three platforms have agreed on common Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) to monitor and report on the cocoa sector’s four main challenges:<\/p>\n\n\n\n