African Cocoa Marketplace, Inc. (ACM) was launched earlier this year, offering marketing and qualitative assurance solutions for African cocoa products and services. ACM puts farmers’ perspectives at the center of the procurement process, to enable them to achieve more secure business relationships and greater respect as the women and men at the heart of the chocolate value chain.
Dr. Kristy Leissle founded ACM after working as a cocoa consultant, scholar, educator, writer, and marketer for nearly twenty years. We were recently able to connect with her to inquire more about the marketplace.