Cocoa and Ingredients
“Our actions, in collaboration with the Cocoa & Forest Initiative, play a crucial role in sequestering carbon stocks in West African forests and addressing climate change, in line with the Paris Climate Agreement”
JO: We have a triple impact model, improving social well- being, increasing small producer incomes, and working in harmony with the environment. Our sustainability plan, The Chocolate Dream, focuses on education, community resilience, and professional training, benefiting regions where we operate. KC: We’ve trained all Cargill Cocoa Promise farmers on sustainable cocoa production practices, helped families find new ways to increase their household income and worked to keep children off farms and in school. We’ve used innovative GPS polygon mapping technology and satellite data to identify and address deforestation risks, and helped farmers adopt agroforestry practices that reforest areas, supplement farmers’ incomes, and sequester carbon dioxide.
We’ve also brought financial and physical traceability to our supply chain, leveraging digital solutions like bar coding and mobile banking. This has all been in collaboration with more than 60 partners across the industry, showing that business can be an important force to deliver societal change.
How does your company ensure traceability and transparency in sourcing cocoa beans for your ingredients, and how does this benefit your customers? CF: We achieve 100% traceability, allowing customers to trace our cacao from farmers to local distributors. This ensures transparency,
accountability, and empowers
consumers to make informed choices. JO: We work closely with our supply chain, ensuring cocoa is grown sustainably and all actors are fairly remunerated. We’re undertaking an ambitious project for deforestation- free traceability, offering customers reassurance about the origins of our cocoa. KC: Technology is at the heart of our traceability program, helping to ensure the integrity of our cocoa supply chain. We work with third party organisations to trace cocoa from the farm to the warehouse to our customers. We harness digital technology to ensure the reliability of our sustainability claims, such as with GPS/polygon field mapping and cocoa bag electronic tracking. We use traceability to understand where our cocoa beans are grown, which enables us to develop interventions and programs that can have a real impact in the communities where we do business.
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