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Yields and incomes of cocoa-farming families engaged in Nestlés program are improving, according to latest progress report ...

Depsite closing the gap by $1,130, total net income for cocoa farming households is still $2,780 below the living income benchmark.

The DFNI team is back in Cannes reporting live on the TFWA World Exhibition &Conference 2023. This blog is produced in association with Brown-Forman.

The company outlined its latest efforts to improve the traceability of its cocoa and projects to work with farmers to improve crop yields and empower women within the cocoa industry.

Nestlé has published a progress report on its Income Accelerator Program, launched at the beginning of 2022 in Cote d’Ivoire, to support cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire and incentivise them into greater productivity.

Nestlé has published a progress report on its Income Accelerator Program, which aims to support cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire and incentivise them into greater productivity.

The large-scale agroforestry project in Côte d’Ivoire will include 11 hectacres of cocoa farming.

The long-term agreement with Nestlé will include payments for ecosystem services (PES) to more than 6,000 farmers covering 11,500 hectares of agroforestry in Côte d’Ivoire. The implementation of the project is already underway, with three cooperatives in the South-Western parts of Côte d’Ivoire engaged in the project, scaling to 10 cooperatives and reaching full scale after five years of planting.

As demand for cocoa climbs, the African nations where most of it is grown are seeking more compensation for impoverished farmers.

Marked by child labour, deforestation and allegations of greenwashing, the cocoa industry is far from sustainable, human rights advocates argue.