Tag: Cocoa

After hope fears for the future: Côte d’Ivoire’s cocoa farmers warn that a drop of 25% in the price they…

Anna Jones shares her delicious Fairtrade chocolate and blood orange freezer cake recipe and tells us why she chooses Fairtrade ingredients.

By Peter Ehrenberger. A dry heat hangs heavily over the Ivorian cocoa forest located near the city of Divo

As the cocoa harvest gets fully underway in Côte D’Ivoire we hear from Fairtrade cocoa producer Mme Yao about her…

Together with Ben & Jerry’s we’re on a mission to make a living income possible for cocoa farmers in West Africa.

As the new cocoa harvest season kicked off in Côte d’Ivoire earlier this month, it also marked the sad moment when KitKats are no longer Fairtrade, a few months after Nestlé announced that KitKats would no longer contain Fairtrade cocoa and sugar.

10 facts about Fairtrade chocolate. What was the first ever Fairtrade chocolate bar and where does cocoa grow? Read this to find out.

Since our statement about cocoa farmers’ concerns regarding KitKat moving away from Fairtrade, we have received many messages of support for farmers, as well as some questions. We have also seen questions on social media, so we would like to answer as many as we can.

In Côte d’Ivoire, women and men are working together to break down gender stereotypes in cocoa farming communities, and building up a new model of women as entrepreneurs and leaders.

Think all chocolate is the same? And what about all the different sustainability labels you find on supermarket shelves? Think again…