Commodity: Cocoa
Rural Extension & Technical Support Services Show Potential For Reducing Deforestation in Brazil
A new study from Solidaridad in Brazil demonstrates the importance of education – in the form of rural extension and…
20 March 2023
Five urgent steps to make the EU’s deforestation regulation work
Solidaridad’s Senior EU Policy Advisor Gert van der Bijl shares the essential steps that the EU, governments and companies need…
13 February 2023
Amidst increasing polarization and a fragmenting world, we continue to see progress and the impact of Solidaridad’s work in making…
31 December 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
