Profits europe. Wants to change that and revolutionize the market by producing chocolate in africa. I think youre finished with the world for the moment when i started talking about my dear people said i was crazy hendrik dont even try youll be ruined if it had potential the big players would already be doing it. But the big players werent doing it. Refused to give up and has made pioneering strides to produce truly fair chocolates in africa. On business. He set up a pioneering operation here thats made in africa onto the european market. Sixty to seventy percent of the sales price goes to chocolate producers in europe consuming countries get the biggest share thats a gross injustice. Of us wants to effect real change and generate income in coca growing. Countries in twenty thirteen. While backpacking in west africa he realized that no European Company was producing chocolate and decided to start in twenty sixteen he found it there a freak. Like you know were doing pioneer work here so we need to factor in that everything will cost more and take a lot longer than planned especially if theres red tape involved its laborious and you need perseverance. Seventy percent of the worlds cocoa is grown in west africa but less than one percent of the chocolate sold on the world market is actually made here. I Love Chocolate is designed to turn a profit but fairly hes teamed up with. The native canadian spent years in switzerland and knows the european chocolate industry he teaches the work. That has doubled the u. It fetches high prices and protects the people and the environment and the pay is fair. When we see faith in our system of production we respect ecology we respect their health for farming and we pay them more premium to be able to send the children to school if we are the highest premium. Organization care and you know in this part of the world. I think just because were from when i started talking about my idea people said i was crazy but once it looked like it would work after all i had a whole network backing me up my best friends my family my wife to help me get off the ground. So that. Harvesting cocoa is a cumbersome process lasting from september to march. For four decades his income depends on volatile World Markets in the past it was too little so his children forced to work. Poverty is the root cause of child labor. But never. Before we never had anything like a premium we couldnt send our kids to school. With. And the training he offers we now have more money. The children go to school and thats a big improvement meant. Cocoa is grown mainly by small pharmaceutically eighty six year a space sack low that pays an extra premium of thirty two year as the cooperative gives positive directly to the farmers. The rest goes towards training courses and the organic certification process. Once the film is have gathered the harvest all of the parts have to be opened and the seeds and pulp covered with leaves for six days the mentation process. During this time the seeds turned brown and developed a special chocolate aroma. Pharmaco proudly presents the results now the beans will be left to drive for an additional six days the now brown like chocolate one big one is crossing jack was right you can fend for three in. India its dry but overall its pretty good a lot of really. After a long process the beans are dry and theyre making money thats very satisfying. Since the pay is better children here no longer have to work they can go to school and that includes i dont want us grandchildren. Twenty fourteen almost one million children in ghana were employed in Coca Cultivation hazardous work in which they have to use machetes carry heavy loads oh. Handle chemicals. John of is one of the grandsons now that his grandfather he can go to school after his primary education he wants to attend secondary school maybe even university. So i like going to school and im learning a lot so later no one will be able to outsmart me easily that. Its lunchtime at home three hundred climbers initiative and the bonuses he receives the father can now provide his extended family with enough to eat theyve even built a larger house with two bedrooms. Fair or not once a year the chocolate industry gathers at the m. In cologne the Worlds Largest sweets and snacks trade fair. Evelyn banned from the European Campaign make chocolate fed is pushing for better conditions for Cocoa Farmers and their families. As a member of the German Initiative on sustainable cocoa she regularly meets with representatives of the government Industry Trade and n. G. O. S. Im always surprised by the creativity involved in track at making there are so many different products if the chocolate industry were just as creative in developing strategies to lift farmers out of poverty then a lot would be accomplished. The bulk of the earnings is still being made in europe. From the farm is the cocoa beans are sold by intermediaries to the processes in europe and there are more than Twelve Thousand companies clocking up sells of over sixty billion euros with coca but changes are afoot even the worlds leading provider of chocolate products will businesses belgiums berry can about claims its aiming for one hundred percent sustainably for. Cocoa by twenty twenty five the expert isnt convinced having that ive looked at the program it doesnt include any new or Innovative Strategies to achieve that goal once again theyre banking on boosting farmers cocoa year olds but theyre not compromising on price. And. Activists continue to fight for fair practice in the cocoa trade they know theres a long way to go before the industry adopts a fair production chain without child labor in africa even though both goals are attainable. Is a craft chocolate brand in the german state of brandon that only Thomas Mission only stocks Certified Organic. He makes premium chocolates and artists in a luxury product made using time on it methods. We source of beans from the Dominican Republic from an organic farmer a family we know we visit them regularly and we know the qualities top rate the employees are treated well and paid fairly thats important to us on those on service to. After the beans are sorted its time for roast and most chocolate producers worldwide. Paste thomas mischas brand has been he competes every step of the production process himself few chocolate makers take such trouble for michelle its a way of ensuring quality through the entire production chain. The Syrian Parliament this is a fantastic moment when you smell the aroma unfolding and you know youll be making it into chocolate its a real high point and if theres. The roasted beans are broken into lives these small splinters of ground into a giant mixed. If that content lends the mass its creamy consistency it takes two days to execute a step that industrial machines do with the help of additives in ten minutes. While an industrial plant can roll out a Million Barrels a day mischas craft business manages just five hundred. That has a price up to six year olds. Our target group isnt just more affluent consumers who can afford to say ill buy a premium bar of chocolate we really produce Something Special that tastes good and many people notice this is quality you cant get at a discount supermarket compared to wine there are huge differences if we buy a bottle for ninety nine cents we can hardly expect a good product on our chocolate is considerably more expensive than a normal chocolate but theres an enormous difference in quality that you can really taste. As a special touch mitchell adds recently sourced produce like strawberries to his chocolate the icing on the cake so to speak for the x x album. Took about a year christine elation joined the brand four years ago because i really enjoy working here you can be creative and we are artisans and you wont find that with other manufacturers and its fun. But one song and as ultimately chocolate is really easy to make you see its a purely mechanical process you dont have to work magic or mix in anything and we really do add very little we even have one product thats one hundred percent chocolate and its made entirely of cocoa beans so its actually a vegetable that was. Once the bars have cooled they packaged and prepared for shipping this chocolate can be purchased in a store its only available online. Back to chocolate. Is rented space from the cocoa mass produce a nice Cocoa Industry the company has helped time must pursue his vision and now manufactures his bonus. Its the first purely canadian chocolate to be sold on the european markets. All the time as has to import is organic milk powder and flow to sell salts. On average the sell of rock ok yields earnings for africa of six to eight cents per chocolate bar by contrast ten times that amount remains in ghana with the bar a fair ethic. Its by joining forces with local providers that thomas has been most successful enabling him to create long term chops like here at nice coca. Leaves here Uninsured Health care and a pension. That keeps my most motivated even on the many occasions that hes here to teach. The thing yourself and get out there often ive never thought of giving up weve had difficult situations the shipping firm went bankrupt we printed the wrong labels and had to order new ones we labeled bars with the wrong sell by date and had to unpack them all weve been through all that but ive never considered giving up. Today the packaging machine is acting up. Cockatrice right so we need to reverberate live over it and bring the old. Problem solved and the gas continue rolling off the line. Then yeah lets rip its a great feeling to finally hold this product. Were super. Out of it it has no more flaws we fought endless battles with the packaging machine. Or if we can drum up a refrigerator car we can ship them out and theyll be on sale in forty five weeks a great feeling. Back in germany on a dairy farm east of berlin. This is where thomas mischas source is the organic milk powder he uses for his premium chocolate. Im looking in my view the sacks are ready for you. Only the cocoa beans and mischas chocolate comes from abroad Everything Else is sourced locally keeping his business his Environmental Impact low. Production is now in full gear. Apart from the basic ingredients mischas stores here he also keeps selecting gradients like dried seed backfill want to add to the balance. All these steps are done by hand. As if its a real crowd have made from. Theres nothing industrial we dont use big machines thats the defining difference and it says so on the package list all the best of school to. Thomas mitchell is brimming with ideas he keeps tabs on Health Trends and recently introduced vegan chocolates another variety is this Pure Chocolate with no additional ingredients the recipe is more than one hundred years old and its made with machines mischa crafted according to traditional models now it can produce a one hundred percent cocoa chocolate with no added fat or sugar you see bathroom variety is going down a treat with customers. Enough to not was to chocolate santa easter bunnies are not or. I think our priority is the quality of the chocolate im not the kick you might get out of a colorful bunny are sent out. By not one hot. Chocolate to savor under special occasion produced in small quantities from organic beans with no additives. In the netherlands one toughly company is committed to producing chocolate without exploiting workers or child labor in west africa the growing distribution on this attorneys took a lonely articles for celebration at weekly Staff Meetings last week he was a really special week for us because for the first time tonys history we saw in five hundred. Thank. You journalist time for the cake and set out to help eradicate child slavery in the Cocoa Industry he founded tonys took a lonely and business took off. And less than ten years its grown to be the largest dutch Chocolate Company its pledge to make only one hundred percent slave free chocolate gannett strong Media Attention and also plays a role in Market Strategist madea admirals job. So we have a policy where we dont do any paid advertisement p. R. Is most important for us because we believe that if you have a good story people do want to write about it anyways. And were going to open a store or reopen the store here as part of our Office Actually i have to go now because im meeting someone there so. What began as a form of protest has turned into a profitable business henk young belt man likes to call himself chief chocolate officer and is the marketing director. Of. The company. Sponsors are already stocked in dutch supermarkets. Now its looking to expand to germany for example. Always things going in germany starting this week right and one of the displays yeah. Yeah yeah yeah thats. Right yes a brilliant fashion strong. Line but instagram influencers he came to spark the Company Sells more than twenty eight million chocolate bars a year manufacture a battery can about produces a line from certified beans just to attorneys its like a realty tax if Small Companies can and money with slave free chocolate why cant the big players. So the Big Companies have to change. Take the responsibility make chocolate different. And its. News to them in a scalable manner that anything that we do they can do as well and if they see that we are commercially successful and make impact at the same time they will change. Consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the problems in chocolate production and theyre demanding transparency from manufacturers. Tell me struck a lonely doesnt just sell a product it also sells the story behind the chocolate every detail is important. Even the fonts are embossed with a special design. Our bar is an equally divided. Illustrates an equal chocolate industry where things are shared evenly and its also a fun fact because there are some west african countries in our bar this is ivory coast. I mean both in one piece of chalk because otherwise would have this is nigeria and a small piece of this is the equator. Rather than going it alone tonys has opted to partner with the industry a clever Marketing Strategy thats paid off on the dutch market. In germany the industry is more resistant to change chocolate expert evelyn ban warns that mass produce is used appetizing tricks often claiming to uphold fair production standards where there are none. Consumers can look for certification labels that ensure certain production conditions are met. Then for today fifty percent of the cocoa in chocolate bars in germany is certified. Here here for instance we have a seal from its. Theres also the fair trade or Rain Forest Alliance seals. What these seals dont care and he is that farmers get a fair price. So a farmer working on a certified cocoa farm still lives below the poverty line. A lot has to happen for that to change we have to move beyond certification and pay fair prices. Naturally it would be good if not just fifty percent but one hundred percent of the cocoa were certified. Uncertified chocolate is still widespread but manufacturers have signed on to Certification Programs are making a difference some pay small premium to work its others like apple and they not only pay premiums they operate transparent supply chains and maintain personal contact a pharmacist. Consumers can also opt for Certified Organic products which guarantee the protection of both workers and the environment during the production process. These seals are monitored by state authorities. The simple fact is that United People tend to buy the same truckload some by the purple brand others by the square brand or candy bar. But few people actually think about who produces the cocoa for their chocolate and the conditions they live in i want to change that. I think everyone should ask where does the cocoa in my favorite chocolate come from. In ghana hentai climbers pays the highest premiums and knows every farmer who delivers his organic gray beans. In addition by producing on site hes achieved something a sea of cards hes created jobs for skilled workers. In the coca Factory Laboratory he and isaac are examining a sample of the bin harvest. At this point it becomes clear whether it was worth investing in training courses for farmers and organic certification. From our second see we have lots of brauer look at this i mean thats just here. You know after going up arent we invest a lot of effort in training the farmers i see this is feedback for me personally its now most important to look at the fact levels in the cocoa beans so we can adjust the recipe accordingly well play around a bit with the fact content and. The employees carry out further chemical tests in the lab each batch of bins is carefully analyzed to optimize planting and processing steps. In the warehouse. Already checking supplies for fairfax next production. Being that you called the freeze and you see a crosssection of the shore and thats a purple color. The. This. Have to. Evolve weve come really far we dont just pay farmers a fair price and thus enable them to live a better life were also creating real opportunities for their futures jobs to help them rise into the middle class. Many africans dream of getting that chance but far too few get it. And thats where we want to continue creating jobs. One day maybe even beyond chocolate into other sectors to create real opportunities here. In here because your man photoshopping so it is possible to produce chocolate in a fat and environmentally friendly way local farmers and more and jobs are created in the processing industry lifting people out of totty and ending child labor projects like fair afraid of beacons showing the way its big producers follow suit enjoying talk lets may no longer be a guilty pleasure. From. Paris. Among children also to. Get to. Thirteen. 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