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New traceability methods show extent of cocoa farms in protected areas – but CFI says progress is being made in eliminating deforestation By Anthony Myers Ethan Budiansky, the World Cocoa Foundation’s Director of Environment, shares some of the findings from the CFI’s latest reports and explains why ‘getting more trees in the ground’ is important.
The latest study by Cote d’Ivoire’s Conseil du Café-Cacao (CCC), the country’s cocoa regulator, has revealed approximately 15% of its cocoa farms are in protected forest areas, which will put it at odds with any upcoming European Union law.
ICI announces new strategy to tackle child labour in cocoa with more effective CLMRS By Anthony Myers The use of Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation Systems (CLMRS) to tackle child labour is expanding in the cocoa sector, and a new study by the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) provides a common operational definition of a CLMRS and sets out key indicators to monitor progress.
CLMRS were developed 20 years ago by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and later adapted for use in the cocoa sector.
Such systems are estimated to cover approximately 25% of the cocoa supply chain in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana and their expansion is set to continue, the ICI reports.
The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) has clarified the term ‘postbiotics’ in a statement that responds to the scientific groundswell and growing number of postbiotic applications.
Barry Callebaut says it is committed to ending deforestation in the cocoa and chocolate industry as part of its actions in the months and years ahead, which are highlighted in its the Cocoa & Forests Initiative (CFI) Progress Report 2020.
Mars Wrigley to meet industry cocoa officials to discuss LID payments By Anthony Myers Barry Parkin, the company s Chief Procurement and Sustainability Officer, is set to meet with members of the cocoa industry and the governments of Ghana and Cote d Ivoire this week to discuss the Living Income Differential (LID) and to underscore the company’s commitment to it.
Parkin will remind those at the meeting that Mars Wrigley has championed the LID with suppliers, chocolate manufacturers and retailers, pushed for financial transparency of its full payment to farmers and control of supply to prevent cocoa from moving into protected areas.