Chocolate in Africa

Chocolate in Africa – World Chocolate Directory

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“Some two million family farms in some of West Africa’s poorest areas produce approximately 70 percent of all the world’s cocoa. The cocoa sector is a major engine of regional economic activity, generating significant export revenue and providing livelihood for 20 million people.

Future sustainable development of the sector faces significant challenges: falling productivity, diminishing farmer incomes, poor physical infrastructure that obstructs access to markets, and concerns over harmful child labor and deforestation.

Coordinating Efforts to Help the Cocoa Sector

IFC and the Bank has joined with World Cocoa Foundation members, including global chocolate and cocoa industry players like Hershey’s, Kraft Foods, Barry Callebaut, Blommer Chocolate, Cargill, ADM, ECOM, and Armagaro Trading, to discuss ways to coordinate efforts to support small holder farmers and improve the sustainability of cocoa production.

A comprehensive approach to increasing farmers’ incomes through increased productivity and improved access to finance, technology, and markets is needed, said meeting participants. That in turn will help address the problem of harmful child labor…”

Source: International Finance Corporation

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