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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.