Ensuring a Sustainable Chocolate Supply

In what is being called an “unprecedented sustainability strategy” by the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF), senior executives from 12 of the world’s largest chocolate and cocoa companies in May 2014 signed an agreement with the Ivory Coast government to develop ways to make cocoa farming in the country sustainable.

Called CocoaAction, the initiative calls on industry members and the government of Ivory Coast to improve the economic viability of cocoa farming by providing farmers wit…