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In December 2007, the cocoa sustainability team of Mars, Incorporated connected with the Puentespinas to establish the Mars Cocoa Development Center where the farm of the Puentespinas learned agricultural practices related to cacao. [2]
The World Cocoa Foundation is a non-profit membership organization with more than 90 member companies striving to make the cocoa supply chain more sustainable. WCF and its members are criticized for doing too little to end child labor, deforestation and extreme poverty, [1] with their efforts dismissed as greenwashing [2] and “a remarkable failure”. [3]
On 10 October 2007, the Cocoa Program was launched. UTZ cooperated with Ahold, Cargill, Heinz Benelux, Mars, Nestlé, and ECOM Agroindustrial to set up a new certification and traceability system for sustainable cocoa. Solidaridad and Oxfam Novib also supported the initiative from the beginning. In 2009 the first UTZ cocoa products reached the ...
The collective wealth of the Ferrero and Mars families has soared to $160.9 billion, outsizing the summed-up GDPs of the leading global cocoa centers, Ghana and Ivory Coast, according to an ...
Cadbury chocolate-maker Mondelez International doubled down on sustainable cocoa sourcing on Wednesday, pledging to spend an additional $600 million by 2030 on efforts to combat child labour ...
He was previously Chief Agricultural Officer of Mars, Incorporated, and a former co-owner of Seeds of Change. At Mars, he encouraged the company's commitment to sustainable sourcing of its cocoa bean supply. [3] Shapiro has been a Fulbright Scholar, Ford Foundation Fellow, and has won the National Endowment for the Humanities Award. [4]
Hershey to Source 100% Certified Cocoa by 2020 2020 Commitment Complements Established Hershey Programs to Reduce Child Labor and Improve Cocoa Communities in West Africa HERSHEY, Pa.--(BUSINESS ...
According to advocates of fair trade, such as Ghanaian cooperative Kuapa Kokoo, [1] [2] "Big Chocolate" companies include Mondelez (which owns Cadbury), Mars, Nestlé, and The Hershey Company. Together these companies process about 12% [citation needed] of the world's 3 million tons [3] of cocoa each year.