Articles Tagged with ''World Cocoa Foundation''

The initiative has contributed to significant advances in cocoa sustainability at regional and national levels within Colombia.

McGrath is the SVP and chief impact & sustainability officer at Mondelēz International and has more than two decades of experience in the global food industry, with a strong focus on sustainability, innovation, and growth. 

The World Cocoa Foundation recently published a Q&A with Senior Director of Environment Ethan Budiansky about its Cocoa and Forests Initiative, including what's in store for phase two of the initiative.

The event brought together governments, cocoa-growing communities, civil society and companies focused on raising farmer incomes, reducing child and forced labor and reversing deforestation. 

Peter Boone, chief executive officer of Barry Callebaut, has also been named the WCF’s new chairman, the first CEO to hold the chairmanship.

The World Cocoa Foundation has closed pre-event registrations for its 2022 Partnership Meeting due to a surge in demand for its first in-person gathering in three years.

Short, who joined the WCF last year, said he was leaving to pursue other opportunities after having led a strategy review with the foundation’s board.

Companies, governments, donors, farmers and experts will convene at The Hotel in Brussels to discuss balancing traceability with improving farmer livelihoods.

Short is tasked with leading efforts by cocoa and chocolate companies to make the cocoa supply chain sustainable by raising farmer incomes, fighting child labor, and ending deforestation.

The Government of Colombia — along with its two largest cocoa companies, Casa Luker and Compañía Nacional de Chocolates, and the National Cocoa Federation — has committed to eliminate deforestation from the country’s cocoa supply chain by 2020.