Cocoa Barometer goes multi-lingual and calls for renewed help for poor farmers
By Anthony Myers
The influential Cocoa Barometer, a biennial review of sustainability in the cocoa sector, is now available in French, Spanish and Dutch - in addition to the original language English version – to represent the major languages where cocoa is grown, traded or processed.
Released in 2020, the latest Cocoa Barometer also includes new visual material outlining the key challenges and possible solutions for the cocoa sector.
The review has been critical in the past regarding certified cocoa from the chocolate companies' in-house schemes. “
Most companies report significant progress in traceability of cocoa sourcing, though definitions of traceability differ. The race for certified volumes has not led to the bar being raised, and with a wider range of interventions at the sector’s disposal, the relevance of certification standards has been declining.