Cocoa Life - Impact

MAKING AN IMPACT

Cocoa Life is dedicated to making an impact across the cocoa supply chain—not just in farming communities, but also in the chocolate you enjoy.

In addition to publishing our progress every year, we engage FLOCERT and Ipsos to verify Cocoa Life is accomplishing what we set out to do. It allows us to learn what works and what we can improve.

Our Progress

We hold ourselves accountable for creating real change in cocoa-growing communities. By 2022, Cocoa Life aims to reach 200,000 farmers and one million community members. This will help us reach our goal to source cocoa for all of Mondelēz International's chocolate brands from Cocoa Life by 2025. In this way consumers across the world can be confident that the brands they love are made the right way.

By the end of 2018:

Cocoa Life reached
142,875
cocoa farmers
in
1,476
communities
And
43%
of Mondelēz International’s chocolate sourced cocoa through Cocoa Life

We recognize that change takes time. But one thing is certain — we are committed to our holistic approach to grow opportunities for our cocoa communities.

Read about our progress

2018 GLOBAL PROGRESS DASHBOARD

This dashboard demonstrates the scale achieved by the end of 2018 and how Cocoa Life is making progress in its key cocoa origin countries. Cocoa Life monitors the below indicators under three areas of intervention, which we put in place with our partners.

Cocoa farming as a prosperous business

Farmers trained, coached or having a farm development plan on Good Agricultural Practices

142,875

Cocoa seedlings distributed

8,428,682

Cocoa-farming demonstration plots

764

Nurseries

86

Youth trained on cocoa-related enterprises¹

9,893

1. Youth is the age range from 18-35 in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, and 15-24 in Indonesia. ↩

Cocoa communities are empowered and inclusive

Communities with a CODEC and Community Action Plan activated²

1,355

CAP projects completed in communities

1,019

Community members trained on gender awareness

74,318

Village Savings and Loan Associations operational

1,817

Community members who participate in VSLAs

70,921

VSLAs linked to finance institutions

49

Community members trained on financial literacy

50,540

Community members trained on business management

29,297

Community members involved in additional Income Generating Activities

18,678

Community members and farmers educated on issues of child labor and forced child labor

116,004

Communities with Child Protection Committees

619

Communities with a Child Labor Monitoring and Remediation System or equivalent

499

2. A committee elected by the communtiy develops and presents the plans. ↩

Forests are conserved and restored

Community members & farmers trained on Good Environmental Practices

114,380

Economic shade trees distributed

1,232,059

Farms mapped & monitored

93,416

About the Dashboard

Cocoa Life routinely collects monitoring data from our partners as part of the ongoing review of program performance at the local level, so we can apply learnings to improve program outcomes in the future.

See also

Côte d'Ivoire Dashboard

Dominican Republic Dashboard

Indonesia Dashboard

Ghana Dashboard

HOW WE MEASURE PROGRESS

OUR 10 GLOBAL KPIs

Cocoa Life uses Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure how effectively we are achieving our business objectives and fulfilling our commitment to our focus areas.

Farming
- Net income from cocoa
- Cocoa productivity
Community
- Increase in women's participation in decision-making process
- Increase capacity in the community to plan and advocate for their own social development
Livelihoods
- Net income from sources other than cocoa
- Cocoa farmers’ reduced vulnerability to external shocks
Youth
- Reduction in child labor and forced child labor
- Increase in career opportunities for youth in cocoa sector
Environment
- Helping future farming generations through sustainable natural resources use on farm
- Increase in conservation of forests and maintenance of ecosystems

Verification

To verify our impact on farmers and through communities and measure progress towards our goal of sourcing all our cocoa sustainably, consistent evaluation is needed. Two independent third parties—Ipsos and FLOCERT—keep us on track.

Impact Evaluation

Ipsos measures our progress on the ground by conducting farmer, farmer household and community studies comparing baseline conditions to developments over at least three years. The studies are designed to evaluate Cocoa Life’s global KPIs across all Cocoa Life origins. Updates about Cocoa Life’s journey and impact will be published annually. For more information on IPSOS’ impact evaluation click here.

Ipsos is a global non-partisan, objective research practice.
Supply Chain Verification

FLOCERT verifies the flow of cocoa from Cocoa Life communities into our supply chain. It also verifies the benefits cocoa farmers receive, such as premium payments and clear trade terms. Verification drives learning and transparency, and ensures we are sourcing from the farming communities we invest in.

FLOCERT is a socially-focused and leading global certification body.

Impact Evaluations

30/04/2019
COCOA LIFE 2018 ANNUAL REPORT – Measuring our impact

In the Cocoa Life 2018 Annual Report, we share our four key global observations, learnings and opportunities we are taking on to increase the impact of our interventions. We invite you to explore these results with us and identify learnings that are relevant for the cocoa sector and beyond. It’s very important to us at Cocoa Life: only by evaluating our impact can we continually assess our work and course-correct where needed, and by doing so boost the livelihoods of our farmers, ensure the sustainability of our cocoa, and grow opportunities. Key highlights:

Cocoa yields are continuously improving

Cocoa Life farm yields are typically above national averages (+15% in Ghana vs. non-Cocoa Life farms).

Change varies by season and farmer, so our focus is on a targeted approach. Pilots have already seen some farmers double return on investment from their land.

More resilient communities can steer their own development

92% of Cocoa Life communities have Community Action Plans in place, many of which are backed by public funding (65% in Indonesia).

Savings and loans groups are increasing community members’ savings buffers (+24% in Ghana).

New income generating opportunities increase income but not fast enough to move all farmers out of poverty

Overall income of Cocoa Life households has risen, driven both by cocoa (+6% in Ghana) and other non-cocoa (+120% in Indonesia) income.

Success is dependent on local economic and policy context. We organise workshops focused on growing new income opportunities and are encouraging governments to focus more on rural development.

Cocoa life farms avoid priority protected areas and forests

About 63% (93,000) of our farms in Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Indonesia, spanning over 166,577 ha, have been mapped already and we know they are not in priority protected areas.

We aim to map 100% of these farms by the end of 2019 and are rolling-out innovative schemes to incentivize communities to protect forests.