Cargill’s donation matches the cash award that comes with the Nobel Peace Prize and is in recognition of the organization’s efforts to combat hunger, help build a world free of conflict and to prevent the use of food as a weapon of war.

The United Nations Development Programme and the FairChain Foundation have created The Other Bar, a chocolate bar that challenges consumers to take direct action against poverty.

Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, along with leading chocolate and cocoa companies, are releasing action plans to end deforestation in the cocoa sector and restore forest areas.

Alongside leading cocoa and chocolate companies, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana have adopted new standards to end deforestation and restore forest areas, the countries and companies announced Thursday.

Mondelez International unveiled two new directives in support of reducing deforestation in West African cocoa supply chains.