Competition law can actually hinder industry efforts to boost food security by limiting collaboration, according to a new report from the UK’s Fairtrade Foundation.
Kraft said work conducted by the Cadbury Cocoa Partnership initiative in Ghana will see more cocoa farmer organisations becoming Fairtrade certified by the end of 2010, to ensure sustainability of supply and a guaranteed income for growers.
The first shipment of Fairtrade certified cocoa by farmers based in Sierra Leone has been bought by Divine Chocolate, a company co-owned by cocoa farmers in Ghana.
Cadbury has pledged to achieve Fair Trade certification for its Dairy Milk bars in Canada after successfully making the Fair Trade transition in Britain and Ireland.
Cadbury’s commitment to source cocoa for its popular Dairy Milk chocolate bars is a strong signal that responsible sourcing is moving out of a niche and into the mainstream, and will introduce more consumers to the principal.
Fairtrade is working to improve UK market share for its accredited
chocolate makers, the forecast for global sugar surplus is revised
upwards, and Mars unwraps its social responsibility credentials.
The Fairtrade Foundation wants the UK market for Fairtrade products
to reach £2bn a year, four times the current level, by 2012,
according to its recent report Tipping the Balance.
Worldwide consumers spent over €2.3bn on Fairtrade certified
products in 2007, a 47 per cent increase on the previous year,
according to figures from Fairtrade Labelling Organizations
International (FLO).
A new chocolate bar which claims to be made from sustainable cocoa
plantations was launched in New York late last month with high
hopes of building on the growing awareness of ethical products
among today’s consumers. Chris Jones...
