The Hershey Co. has launched a new three-year program expanding its cocoa farmer training and community initiatives in Ivory Coast.

I’d like to point out another winning effort that happened last month, the World Cocoa Foundation’s CocoaAction initiative.

Mondelez has partnered with the university to set up an independent verification framework with three key elements.

Fairtrade cocoa farmers in West Africa are investing in their farms, crop infrastructure and communities, but they need deeper, long-term partnerships to drive change.

Building on the success of the first WCC in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire in 2012, the second edition once again provides a forum for the global cocoa economy to come together and exchange sustainability strategies and discuss opportunities and challenges.

The company is planning to build and run a new, 118-turbine, 200MW wind farm, which will be called ‘“Mesquite Creek Wind.”

Cocoa is a new crop in Vietnam, and many farmers still lack the knowledge, skills and expertise to achieve higher yields.

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