The EU's new due diligence laws, designed to address deforestation and human rights abuses in supply chains, risk having an uneven effect on African economies and farming, as governments and industry scramble to prepare compliance regimes.
Barry Callebaut has highlighted a need to help enable farmers in its core cocoa supply chains to increase the yield and quality of their crops, as well as deliver improved human rights protections, as central pillars of the company's annual Forever Chocolate programme, reports Neill Barston.
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