Cocoa - Key data about Fairtrade Impact
Would you like to learn how many producer organizations are involved in Fairtrade Cocoa? Or how many workers and farmers you can find per country? Visit our dashboard with statistics on our Top 7 products!
Cocoa is the plant behind chocolate, one of the world’s most popular snacks. Chances are you ate some this week. While people love cocoa, they wouldn’t love the conditions faced by many of the people who grow it.
Cocoa has grown to be one of the most prominent Fairtrade products since it was first certified in 1994. We are pushing the confectionary sector to address a host of challenges that threaten the long-term sustainability of cocoa and the people behind it.
The world’s appetite for cocoa is booming. And yet cocoa farmers around the world often struggle to make a living, despite their position as the source of a highly prized commodity.
Widespread poverty, deforestation, gender inequality, child labour and forced labour are persistent problems in the cocoa sector which could ultimately destroy it. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Fairtrade is helping to change the cocoa business for the better in a number of ways. When you choose Fairtrade cocoa and chocolate, you are supporting this drive for change.
Would you like to learn how many producer organizations are involved in Fairtrade Cocoa? Or how many workers and farmers you can find per country? Visit our dashboard with statistics on our Top 7 products!
Many cocoa farmers have never tasted chocolate, the lucrative consumer product that so much of the rest of the planet’s people enjoys. When you choose Fairtrade cocoa and chocolate, you help to put the livelihoods of those farmers back at the (chocolate) heart of the matter.
Three Ecuadorian Fairtrade cocoa cooperatives learned techniques to improve cocoa quality thanks to a partnership with Cacao of Excellence.
Cocoa farmers who were paid a living income reference price earned on average about 15 percent more compared to government regulated farmgate prices, according to a new report ...
The partnership will support more than one million Fairtrade coffee and cocoa farmers cultivating 2.5 million hectares to boost forest protection and meet EU regulations.