The cocoa and chocolate industry, along with the governments of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana have committed to work together, through the Cocoa & Forests Initiative, to end deforestation and…
Cocoa and the Global Goals: Eliminating Deforestation (SDG15)
This blog was originally posted on World Cocoa Foundation. The remark above was made earlier this year when Minister Donwahi opened an important meeting in Abidjan between the Ivorian…
Cashew farming in Africa – from backyard hobby to bankable business
SDM analytics help to increase bankability of cashew farmers in Africa. Over the past five years, IDH, in partnership with ComCashew, have supported the development of smallholder cashew farmers in…
Cocoa and Forests Initiative coalition take commitments forward in Abidjan
The first follow up meeting of the Cocoa and Forest Initiative, this year, was hosted by the government of Côte d’Ivoire. The event brought the coalition members forward towards concrete…
70% of Global Cocoa Supply Agrees to Forest Action
At the UN Climate Change Conference (COP23), top cocoa-producing countries Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana have announced far-reaching joint Frameworks for Action with leading chocolate and cocoa companies to end deforestation…
The Little Sustainable Landscapes Book, which was launched at the COP21 in Paris, is now available Spanish, making it available for a large audience base, primarily in Latin America, where…
12 cocoa companies commit to halting deforestation
On March 16 2017 the twelve largest global chocolate and cocoa companies committed to develop cooperative, multi-stakeholder frameworks to help address deforestation and forest degradation in their cocoa supply chains…
Huffington Post blog about Cocoa & Forest Initiative
IDH, the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) and The Prince’s International Sustainability Unit (ISU) convened the Cocoa & Forest Initiative and launched it at a meeting hosted by HRH The Prince…