Delectable but Destructive: Tracing Chocolate’s Environmental Life Cycle
Chocolate is a treat beloved across the world. But how much do we know about our favorite guilty pleasure’s environmental impacts?
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August 1, 2022
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Towards Sustainable Cocoa in Côte d’Ivoire: The Impacts and Contribution of UTZ Certification Combined with Services Provided by Companies
This impact evaluation was commissioned to Wageningen University, and analyses the contribution of certification and interventions of companies implementing certification with groups of farmers in Côte d’Ivoire. The outcomes analysed are increased yields, improved income, improved working and living conditions, and better environmental protection. The results indicate that cocoa farmers increased their knowledge and implement […]
Impacts of Cocoa Sustainability Initiatives in West Africa
This scientific article analyses the social, economic, and environmental effects of voluntary standards initiatives and corporate initiatives in the cocoa sector in West Africa, largely focusing on farm and farmer group. It is based on empirical evidence from large-scale, mixed-method studies using a suite of socioeconomic, agronomic, and environmental indicators to compare the situation of […]
World Rainforest Day: Five UK Favourite Foods ‘Under Threat from Climate Crisis and Deforestation’
The Rainforest Alliance says climate change and deforestation threaten the supply of key raw ingredients for some of Britain's favourite foods.
After Bloody Conflict, Indonesian Cocoa Farmers Work Together Toward Sustainability
Cocoa farmers in once-divided Poso, Indonesia, join forces to earn Rainforest Alliance certification.... Continue Reading
New ‘Business Case’ Launched to Reduce Cocoa and Other Commodity-Driven Deforestation
The Rainforest Alliance, CDP, Clarmondial, Conservation International, and USAID announce a transformational public-private 'Business Case' partnership to reduce cocoa and other commodity-driven deforestation, and contribute to global climate and biodiversity goals.