Articles Tagged with ''cocoa''

PRONATEC AG, a Swiss supplier of organic food raw materials and of sustainable, 100% organic chocolate, has commissioned one of Europe’s most advanced cocoa processing plants in Beringen in the canton of Schaffhausen in spring 2022.

Led by a four-person, multidisciplinary committee, the investigation was funded through a California Proposition 65 settlement reached between As You Sow and 32 members of the confectionery industry in 2018.

Built on SwissDeCode's DNAFoil proprietary technology, and incorporating underlying research from Mars Wrigley, the new solution enables field personnel to quickly test cocoa trees.

Barry Callebaut Group, together with its premium brand Cacao Barry, announced Chef Francisco Migoya, USA Cacao Barry Ambassador, as the lead chef for cocoa farming sustainability in support of the Cocoa Horizons Foundation

Barry Callebaut has a target to become forest positive by 2025. This means that it has to develop a greater understanding of where deforestation is at risk of occurring in its supply chain.

Food and beverage manufacturers and their consumers care more than ever before about the standards behind the things they buy, including cocoa.

Chocolate offers an opportunity to indulge, but it also serves as a palette for flavor innovation and provides an entry point into where and how cocoa is grown, harvested and processed.

Olam Cocoa has launched the Cocoa Compass program, designed to support the creation of an environmentally positive, professionalized and quality focused cocoa supply chain.

Cocoa organizations in Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire now say sustainability programs carried out by chocolate makers and confectionery companies can work in harmony with the new per-tonne living income differential the countries established in July.