Sustainable Cocoa Farming
Promoting better agricultural practices Healthier trees Cleaner farms Higher quality cocoa To strengthen and improve the cocoa value chain With our help, thousands of farmers and their families will receive the tools and training needed to improve agricultural practices to ensure that cocoa is produced in the most sustainable way. Working closely with farmers to increase yields, improve quality and increase their incomes Provide levels of expertise such as field cleaning, farm infrastructure, harvesting, fermentation, drying and bean [...]
The Social Enterprise
Cooperative by Farmers for Farmers Farmers that get better pricing, better agricultural programs and training will result in better agricultural practices Developing smallholder cocoa export supply chains Providing agricultural training for farmers in the co-op, pay better rates, provide engineers to oversee their operation, assisting them with certification process through major certifying agencies. The importance of agricultural cooperatives is to improve the lives of millions of smallholder farmers and their families. Smallholder farmers gain big benefits from agricultural cooperatives [...]
Farm Certifications
Creating Transparency and Traceability To help farmers to gain certifications Create Traceability Create Transparency Assisting in creating partnerships between farmers and certification agencies at origin can strengthen smallhold farmers organizations, improved their farming practices, upgraded their drying and fermenting technology and sell Certified cocoa at a premium price. The success of the partnership can boosted the revival of traditional practices, which had been in decline since the introduction of sun-grown hybrid plants. Enable organizations to have greater transparency and [...]
Prevent Child Labor
To eliminate poverty of child labor To institute traceability systems for cocoa supply chains starting at the farm leve To help the chocolate industry to do more to monitor the supply chain to combat child labor, forced labor and human trafficking The global chocolate and cocoa industry condemns the worst forms of child labor in the cocoa supply chain. Unacceptable labor practices on cocoa farms are a recognized issue, with too many children participating in hazardous farming tasks or working [...]
Better Quality Cocoa
To increase available supplies of flavor cocoa To improve flavor qualities Finding a way to preserve all of the cocoa characteristics from origin to a chocolate bar Demand for fine flavor cocoa is increasing rapidly. However, many cocoa producers who would like to grow fine flavor cocoa do not have access to the information they need about which varieties to grow, or how to ferment and dry fine flavor cocoa. Flavor development starts at the farm. The cocoa industry is [...]
Promoting Cocoa
Consumer and End User Educational Programs Showcasing the extraordinary health benefits of cocoa Promoting cocoa consumption and use to end users and consumers by seminars, events, workshops, school programs, panels, extra curricular activities for kids, chocolate making events. Advocacy and networking are complementary to organization’s strategic approach. By participating in global events, as well as organizing and hosting side-events alongside major conferences, Cocoa Family actively creates and promotes awareness of cocoa and products that contain the ingredients.