Commodity: Cocoa
Sustainability Initiatives Will Fail Until Companies Pay More for Cocoa, says new report
Endemic sustainability issues within global cocoa supply chains, including child labour and deforestation will continue unless efforts are coupled with…
07 December 2022
RECLAIM Sustainability! 2021 Progress Report
The RECLAIM Sustainability! programme is a partnership working to strengthen civil society and foster inclusive sustainability in global value chains.…
01 December 2022
CULTIVATING RESILIENT COCOA THROUGH AGROFORESTRY
For generations, removing non-cocoa trees was standard practice when establishing cocoa farms in Côte d’Ivoire. Conventional wisdom saw trees, no…
25 November 2022
Embedding an entrepreneurial vision in the living income discourse
By Nico Roozen, Honorary President, Solidaridad Network For the past decade the living income ambition for smallholder farmers has been…
20 October 2022
Strengthening Civil Society’s capacity in Sierra Leone
Civil society organizations, women representatives and farmers in the cocoa and oil palm sector in Sierra Leone are advocating and…
10 October 2022
Cocoa programme phase two formally ends
Solidaridad has formally ended the second phase of its flagship cocoa programme, the Cocoa Rehabilitation and Intensification Programme, with a…
04 October 2022
Putting youth employment and entrepreneurship at the centre of agri-sector development
Young people are essential to economic development and food security in East, Central and Southern Africa as they make up…
03 October 2022
Improving smallholder’s livelihoods through service delivery models
Visibly happy, Joana Atta owes her progress and transformation journey to an intervention by a Rural Service Centre established under…
22 September 2022
Award-winning Tuerê cocoa takes top prize for 4th year in a row
Recognized among the best 50 cocoa beans in the world by Cocoa of Excellence, the Brazilian terroir of Tuerê has…
08 September 2022
Changing the narrative in my cocoa community
Percy Cobbina is determined to see the eradication of child labor from the supply chain in Amafie, a cocoa-farming community…
28 July 2022
