This page features all our cocoa-related content and resources. Curious about the Rainforest Alliance's work in cocoa?
This article highlights how the Rainforest Alliance's is supporting companies to make a big leap towards EUDR compliance and calls for increased support for smallholder farmers to ensure they are not unintentionally excluded from the EU market.
From today, Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee and cocoa farmers can opt-in to specific criteria that align with European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) requirements, in the Rainforest Alliance certification platform.
Read about the impact of climate change and extreme weather events - like El Nino - on cocoa production worldwide.
Confectionery News spoke with Kerry Daroci, Cocoa Sector Lead at the Rainforest Alliance, to obtain an overview of how the chocolate industry is responding to the threat of its own existence.
How plant-based meat's dependence on coconut and cacao could become a liability.
The vibrant food we eat is all thanks to farmworkers and the land. And yet, conventional agriculture—with its dependence on toxic chemicals—often comes at the expense of both. That’s why the Rainforest Alliance is campaigning to ban paraquat, one of the world’s most dangerous weedkillers. ... Continue Reading