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Cambridge and Janina Grabs Assistant Professor of Business and Society, ESADE Cambridge, Jan 8 The Conversation Most European consumers shopping baskets tend to include items linked to deforestation in tropical regions, involving agricultural commodities such as beef, soybeans, palm oil, cocoa, rubber, coffee, timber and paper. 1. Local benchmarking The new regulation involves a benchmarking process that determines whether commodity producing regions have a high, standard or low risk of deforestation.

Eliminating deforestation from cocoa supply chains in an ethical and comprehensive way is a challenging yet critical task. It will require collaboration between…

The murky truth about where your chocolate comes from Despite a significant uptick in corporate sustainability efforts in the cocoa sector, it is nearly impossible for most chocolate consumers to know the amount of tropical deforestation associated with their sweet luxury. The cocoa bean is the fundamental and irreplaceable ingredient in chocolate. Cocoa beans come from trees that require specific climates and pollination systems. These conditions are found in and around tropical forest ecosystems. As global demand for chocolate increases due to increasing awareness of the potential h...

Carodenuto — along with Janina Grabs, a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich’s Environmental Policy Lab — wants to know how, and if, these businesses can drive widespread change to sustainable farming. Each year, the world consumes about four million tonnes of cocoa, most of it grown by small farmers in West Africa. The beans then pass between middlemen along increasingly concentrated supply chains. By the time they reach supermarket shelves, over 60 per cent of the beans will have been controlled by three international commodity companies, she said. That creates an “hourglass” ...