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cargill to invest $5 million in west africa to support sustainable cocoa
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the partnership with care will improve access to education and basic services, promote better agricultural practices and help address the worst forms of child labor in cocoa growing communities. cargill's commitment also will expand its farmer field schools program. this program is currently training over 10,000 farmers and will expand to support tens of thousands of more farmers over the coming years. this training is directly helping farmers increase yields, improve quality and increase their incomes, as well as enabling them to gain independent certification, such as utz certified. "this commitment underlines our belief that supporting communities and training farmers is key to ensuring cocoa is produced sustainably, to increasing farmers' incomes and to improving the livelihoods of farmers and their families in west africa," said jos de loor, managing director of cargill's cocoa and chocolate business. the care program will expand on activities already underway in 70 cocoa growing communities to reach a total of 130 communities in the ashanti, brong ahafo and central regions of ghana. additionally, activities will be initiated in 10 communities in the san pedro and daloa regions of cote d'ivoire. in total, it is estimated the program will help improve educational opportunities for at least 60,000 children, as well as improving the livelihoods of cocoa growing families within these rural communities. "with cargill's generous support, thousands of farmers and their families will receive the tools and training necessary to improve agricultural practices to ensure that cocoa is produced in the most sustainable way," said steve hollingworth, chief operating officer and executive vice president at care. since cargill started operating in cote d'ivoire in 1998 it has been supporting the development of cocoa farming in the region. cargill's farmer field schools focus on farming techniques and post-harvest activities such as pruning, farm renewal and cocoa fermentation methods, as well as stressing the importance of school attendance for children and hiv awareness. as a result of training, farmers are benefitting on average from a 30 percent increase in their incomes from higher yields, as well as an improvement in the quality of their crop for which they also receive a quality-related bonus payment from cargill. the training is enabling farmer cooperatives to achieve utz certification, which is supporting small-scale farmers to improve agricultural, environmental and social practices in cocoa production. by the end of this year more than 10,000 tonnes of independently certified utz cocoa beans will be processed by cargill into high-quality cocoa and chocolate products for use by food manufacturers in their branded products. "our approach to cocoa sustainability recognizes the importance of supporting communities today, as well as assisting their future growth and development," continued jos de loor. "by focusing our support in local communities we are helping improve the livelihoods of farming families and increasing opportunities for children to receive an education." in addition to these activities, cargill also provides financial support for other programs in the cocoa sector. this includes supporting the international cocoa initiative's (ici) efforts to prevent and eliminate forced and abusive child labor, as well as joining other companies in the sector to partner with the bill & melinda gates foundation to support the cocoa livelihoods program, which is a five-year effort to improve the livelihoods of 200,000 cocoa farmers in west africa. it also continues to support programs in other major cocoa growing regions around the world.
Source :flex-news-food.com
Date :
9
September
2010
Category :
restaurants and Food industrie
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leading cocoa processor archer daniels midland (adm) has announced it is kick-starting its ivory coast sustainable cocoa initiative – serap – in indonesia in a bid to boost cocoa quality from growers in that region. indonesia is the third largest cocoa growing nation in the world, with growers in sulawesi the target of the programme, said adm. a spokesperson for the cocoa processor told confectionerynews.
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archer daniels midland company (adm) is to source utz certified cocoa for the first time, after nigeria was granted sustainable recognition for its beans. nigerian cocoa farmers were awarded the country’s first utz cocoa certification following a partnership between ingredients giant adm and cocoa exporter saro agro-allied which aimed to develop sustainable farming practices in the country.
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another milestone has been achieved in the utz certified sustainable cocoa programme, with the first-ever shipment of cocoa beans from ghana that meets that standard’s economic, environmental and social criteria. leading industrial supplier barry callebaut said it has bought the majority of the shipment, saying it applauds “the dedicated efforts of the farmers affiliated with the cocoa abrabopa association (caa), the first cocoa producer group to become utz certified in ghana.
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the delivery of cargill’s first utz certified beans from vietnam marks an important milestone for the company in its bid to establish the region as a new origin country for cocoa, said the ingredients giant. the development, which saw the arrival of the beans to cargill ’s buying station in chau thanh ben tre province, demonstrates the company’s role in building a global sustainable supply chain, continued the company.
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cargill has resumed is cocoa and chocolate operations at its production facility in the ivory coast following the resolution of the recent political crisis in the west african cocoa powerhouse. since the eu lifted its restrictions on the ports and institutions, the main ports of abidjan and san pedro have begun operating again with exports of cocoa products and beans resuming. jos de loor, managing director of cargill cocoa & chocolate, said that cocoa bean purchases have already begun, whilst exports will commence in the next few days: “the situation is continuing to improve with visible and practical signs that the country is on the road to recovery following the months of instability and uncertainty.
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a new minimum price for fairtrade organic cocoa, which comes into force early next year, will act as an income safety net for growers amid ongoing price volatility in the sector, according to the organization behind the standard. as of 1 january 2011, certified farmers are assured a minimum price of us$2300/metric tonne for their organic cocoa sold on fairtrade terms, or the market price if higher, said the fairtrade labelling organizations international (flo).
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ngos and human rights groups have accused hershey of sourcing cocoa from african farms that use forced and child labour in wide-ranging criticism of the us chocolate giant\'s record on corporate and social responsibility. a report from global exchange, green america, the international labor rights forum (ilrf) and oasis usa said yesterday (13 september) that hershey had not ensured its cocoa supplies from west africa were not from areas \"tainted\" by labour rights abuses.
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cargill has announced a three-year us$5 million commitment to support sustainable cocoa in côte d’ivoire and ghana, including a partnership with care to sponsor a new program of activities to improve the livelihoods of cocoa farmers and their families in ghana and côte d’ivoire. cocoa is the largest industry and main export in the côte d’ivoire, with almost a quarter of its inhabitants somehow involved in the cocoa trade, and is inextricably linked to the country’s fragile political landscape.
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pod-to-pallet chocolate supplier barry callebaut has finally exited the consumer business as the belgium base sweets products buys its stollwerck division, in a deal announced today. the two companies did not disclose the financial details of the transaction, which is subject to assessment by european compeititon regulators. spokesperson for sweet products, jean-marie van logtestijn, told confectionerynews.
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