Commodity: Cocoa

Global Annual Report 2022

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