Creating positive impact for people, planet and progress
Together with our partners, we’re working to develop sustainable business models, create positive on-the-ground impact and improve sector governance in key cocoa-producing countries.
Driving sustainability through living income
Cocoa farming is one of the major causes of forest degradation in West Africa. Efforts to make the cocoa sector sustainable at a social, environmental and economic level will not be attainable unless farmers earn at least a living income.
To this end, we advocate shared responsibility across the entire supply chain. Convening public-private commitments to create an enabling environment, ensure more sustainable procurement practices, and accelerate investments in the sourcing of sustainable cocoa.
Through our Roadmap on Living Income we further progress solutions and guide investments to create more value for producers, protect the environment, and ensure traceability and data transparency.
Our initiatives in cocoa
Bringing businesses, governments and other supply chain partners together to make living income a reality for cocoa farmers.
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Find out moreCocoaperation
Cocoaperation aims to reduce the living income gap - from over 50% to below 30% - for 100,000 farming households across Côte d’Ivoire, by 2025.
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Find out moreCocoa and Forests Initiative (CFI)
CFI is a multi-stakeholder effort to eliminate deforestation and support farmers' income in the cocoa supply chain in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana.
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Find out moreDISCO
Aims to support farming families, eliminate deforestation and end child labour in cocoa producing regions which are important to Dutch markets.
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Find out moreBeyond Chocolate
Beyond Chocolate aims to enable cocoa growers supplying the Belgian market to earn at least a living income and to eliminate deforestation.
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Find out moreRoadmap to Deforestation Free-Cocoa, Cameroon
The Roadmap will help create a competitive advantage for Cameroonian cocoa in the global market.
News
The latest updates from our work in the cocoa sector
Press Release: IDH Farmfit Fund invests EUR 2.3M in the agri-microfinance institution, Advans Côte d'Ivoire
Release of the DISCO Annual Report 2023 and Individual Action Plans
