Voice Network, an association of NGOs and trade unions, has urged EU policy makers to make mandatory compliance with Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) to end human rights violations and environmental destruction in cocoa supply chains.
It is not enough for cocoa sustainability programs to tackle child labor by solely focusing on increasing yield and cultivating trees, Puratos has said. Instead, the company’s own sourcing program, Cacao-Trace, deals with the issue by installing a more...
World’s top producer will start destroying cocoa trees and move farmers to other areas, as well as using waste from cocoa pods to create energy in south of country.
Innovative foods procurement group Puratos extends its cocoa sourcing program into new territories to improve quality control of Papua New Guinea cocoa beans.
Raw Patisserie, makers of the Ridiculously Good raw chocolate brand, is taken out of insolvency by Lovechock, who has vowed to maintain the brand’s presence in the retail space.
Finnish chocolatier Goodio has developed a line of oat flakes-added chocolate bars ChocOat that contains 60% less sugar than traditional milk chocolate, such as Milkybar.
Half the major agriculture, fishery and forestry sustainability standards fail to show they improve the environment or the lives of poor farmers, new report claims.
The confectionery world has become crowded by dark chocolate made with single-origin cocoa beans, but Fine & Raw Chocolate has found its niche competitiveness by switching to thinner bars at 4mm each.
London start-up Kaakao managed to overcome texture and flavour challenges when sweetening its chocolate with dates instead of sugar but the regulatory challenge - the EU definition of chocolate - is proving to be more difficult.
