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Selecta opens its first Foodies-On-The-Go for air travel


Selecta has opened East Midlands Airport’s first Foodies-On-The Go; an unattended retail solution, offering well-known snacks and drinks 24/7 using Smart Fridge technology. Situated in the check-in hall before security, the new facility is installed ahead of the airports’ busiest weeks of the year for passenger travel. Customers will be able to enjoy a great cup of Lavazza coffee, a cold drink, sandwich or snack at any time of the day or night. They can also charge their mobile phone at the same time. Richard Duckworth, East Midlands Airport’s commercial trading manager, says: “Having a Foodies-On-The Go facility in our check- in hall is welcome investment and will improve the customer experience, especially as we enter our busiest weeks of the year. There has been no food or drink provision in the check-in hall for


some time and this provides a great solution. I’m confident that it will be well-received by airport and airline colleagues too.” And through our coffee partner Lavazza, Foodies-to-go can offer customers a barista-quality coffee experience using high-quality freshly-ground beans at a competitive price. The opening follows a successful launch of Foodies-on-the-go at


East Croydon Station, and now offers the same experience to airport staff and customers. Foodies is a retail concept that provides food and drink on the go or in the workplace. It is a safe and secure solution that uses smart technology and intelligent vending. Our smart fridges allow people to browse, check ingredients and put a product back, but only get charged for what they finally take. It is the ultimate seamless consumer experience.


CFI makes progress in halting deforestation


The governments of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana and 35 companies in the Cocoa & Forests Initiative (CFI), including IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative and the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF), have made progress towards ending deforestation in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. In two joint public/private sector reports they reported actions in 2021 included more development of agroforestry with the distribution of 11.3 million non-cocoa trees by cocoa and chocolate companies in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. This brings the total number of multi-purpose trees supplied by the private sector since the launch of CFI to 21.7 million. In both countries, companies reached on average 72% traceability in their direct supply chains. Companies are also investing in large scale farmer training for better livelihoods and less incentive to encroach into forests. Governments’ efforts have focused on the further development


of national cocoa traceability systems and forest monitoring. In Ghana, a total of 515,762 farmers have been enumerated into the Cocoa Management System, owning 845,635 farms in the Western South, Ashanti, and Central regions of Ghana. Côte d’Ivoire has mapped more than 1 million farmers 3.2 million ha of cocoa farms. The satellite forest monitoring tool IMAGES was adopted by the Ivorian CFI signatories. Based on IMAGES it was observed that in the cocoa belt forest cover disturbance almost halved compared to the previous year.


All signatories invest in reforestation. The government of Côte


d’Ivoire, with the Ministry of Water and Forests (MINEF) in the lead, has planted over 28 million trees in the past year, which accounts for almost one tree per capita. This includes the 3.5 million trees planted by Le Conseil Café Cacao as part of its new program to achieve the planting of 60 million trees on cocoa farms by 2024. In Ghana, under the leadership of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources (MNLR), authorities were directly involved in the restoration of 9,488 ha of degraded forest and the distribution of 5,297,739 multi-purpose tree seedlings by both the public and private sector. Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire are looking to accelerate public


private collaboration to preserve primary forests and to foster reforestation in protected areas. This includes a further scaling of the public private partnerships for the preservation of selected primary and secondary forests in Côte d’Ivoire. This comes in addition to the Memoranda of Understanding which were signed between MINEF and cocoa companies, now bringing the area under public-private protocols for the conservation and restoration of category III classified forests to 666,081 ha. In Ghana, seven additional companies signed onto agreements in the collaboratively identified priority Hotspot Intervention Areas (HIA) landscapes of Asunafo, Bia-Juabeso, and Atwima.


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