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Entry: Margaret Odotei, World Cocoa Foundation Three hours of heavy rain and one hour of drizzle was hardly enough to stop the enthusiastic children, community members, government officials, development partners and officials from the cocoa industry…Read More »

Entry: Mina Lassey, World Cocoa Foundation The WCF Cocoa Livelihoods Program is a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and 16 WCF industry members that was formed in 2009 to increase the livelihoods of approximately 200,000…Read More »

Over 100,000 cocoa farmers in four Central and West African countries, including Ghana, are to benefit from a US$14 million package from the Africa Cocoa Initiative (ACI) within the next five years. Read more

The Washington, D.C.-based World Cocoa Foundation, the U.S. government’s Feed the Future initiative, and the Netherlands-basedSustainable Trade Initiative have announced the launch of a five-year, $14 million effort to boost the productivity and incomes of cocoa farmers in the Ivory…Read More »

Farmers from four cocoa producing countries in West and Central Africa are set to benefit from a $14 million project by the World Cocoa Foundation(WCF) and the  African Cocoa Initiative (ACI) aimed at increasing productivity, incomes…Read More »

July 20, 2011, Washington, DC and Accra, Ghana – The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) announced today that Leland International Hunger Fellow Laura Ostenso will join its ECHOES Alliance team based in Accra, Ghana beginning this month.…Read More »