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“Cocoa is Ghana and cocoa is money, thanks to our farmers for working hard to earn foreign exchange for this beautiful country.”  – This is a line from an old song on cocoa which Igrew up…Read More »

WCF president Bill Guyton recently visited Tokyo, Japan and the National Museum of Nature and Science to address a crowd attending the Chocolate Exhibition.  He sat down with writer and editor Chiharu Otsuka of National Geographic…Read More »

The World Cocoa Foundation’s (WCF) Partnership Meetings bring together the private and public sectors from the Americas, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia to share knowledge about a wide range of cocoa sustainability topics, and to collaborate…Read More »

Seventy percent of the world’s cocoa now comes from West Africa, where family-run farms have proliferated across the landscape in recent decades. Yet in a paradox, the spread of these nonnative cocoa trees often contributes to…Read More »

Entry: Ethan Budiansky, World Cocoa Foundation One of the objectives of the WCF Cocoa Livelihoods Program is to develop and scale up new innovations and best practices in extension services to farmers.  The Program is very…Read More »

Entry: Aisha Hassan, World Cocoa Foundation In January 2007 the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF), introduced new WCF member, Fazer, to the southeastern part of Côte d’Ivoire where education support and livelihood activities under the Child Labor…Read More »

The World Cocoa Foundation organized the 22nd Partnership Meeting & Roundtable Sessions in collaboration with the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO on October 24-25, 2012 in Zurich. I participated in a panel discussion on “Lessons on Addressing…Read More »

Entry: Holly Houston, World Cocoa Foundation WCF CLP Farmer Cooperative CABB in Buyo, Côte d’Ivoire, Management team with Socodevi training agent and TechnoServe business advisor. In early September, I had the opportunity to accompany our partners…Read More »

Cocoa scientist Dr. Louis Koko is the first-ever USDA/WCF Borlaug Cocoa Fellow from Côte d’Ivoire.  On September 10, he spoke at a press conference in Abidjan organized by WCF and attended by nearly 30 representatives of…Read More »

Demand for cocoa is soaring around the world – growing 2 to 3 percent each year. Perhaps nowhere is that growth stronger than in Asia, particularly in China and India.  Given the demand, the ability to…Read More »