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Ferrero achieves 2020 target of 100% sustainable cocoa By Anthony Myers Company also announces strategic partnership with Save the Children through a €8m project to further scale and strengthen activities to protect children.
The Ferrero Group has announced it has achieved its 2020 goal of sourcing 100% sustainable cocoa via independently managed standards and that it will work to ensure full visibility and traceability of its cocoa across its supply chain with proper due diligence.
It also disclosed, for the first time, its tier-1 suppliers and all cocoa farmer groups from which the company sourced cocoa and chocolate during the 2019/2020 season. This disclosure is now possible due to Ferrero’s effort to improve transparency across its cocoa supply chain, aiming to source all cocoa from dedicated farmer groups through supply chains which are fully traceable to farm level, it said.
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Tony s said it was removed from Slave Free Chocolate list a few months ago
Tony s Chocolonely, the Netherlands-based firm making confectionery from ethically-sourced cocoa, has responded to the company s removal from the Slave Free Chocolate list because of its links to ingredients supplier Barry Callebaut.
Barry Callebaut is among seven confectionery and ingredients giants facing a lawsuit over alleged child labour infringements filed last Friday (12 February) by the Washington DC-based human rights organisation International Rights Advocates on behalf of eight former cocoa plantation workers in the west African country of Cote D Ivoire, who claim they were forced to work without pay when they were still children.
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WITH an aching back, and hunger pangs ripping through his stomach, 15-year-old Abou Traore uses a heavy machete to hack through the dense brush of a cocoa plantation.
The teenager, who has been working long hours on the farm since the age of ten, is one of 16,000 children forced into child labour in West Africa - so that Brits can enjoy their favourite chocolate bars.
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A nine-year-old child pictured by Unicef working with a machete on a cocoa farmCredit: Mirrorpix