Cocoa Life - Progress

With the launch of Mondelēz International’s 2020 Snacking Made Right report, we reflect on Cocoa Life’s progress, impact and scale-up over the last year: a year that has proved to be like no other.

20210429

Cocoa Life - Towards climate resilient cocoa communities: Our progress in protecting forests

Mondelēz International’s Cocoa Life program launches ambitious new partnerships to scale up forest conservation and restoration efforts and reduce its carbon impact in cocoa-growing areas. The latest Cocoa & Forests Initiative (CFI) progress report outlines the strides made and challenges faced protecting and restoring forests around Cocoa Life communities in a year shaped by lockdown.

20210304

Cocoa Life - Catalyzing impact through public-private partnerships: Our learnings from Musrenbang in Cocoa Life communities in Indonesia

Andi Sitti Asmayanti, Associate Director Sustainability South East Asia at Mondelēz International, shares a paper about the unique community development approach Musrenbang. This paper outlines how Cocoa Life has worked with local partners to integrate the Musrenbang process into the cocoa sustainability program and shares impact learnings from the journey.

20200430

Cocoa Life - COVID-19: How we are protecting those at the heart of our program

The COVID-19 pandemic is an incredibly serious health challenge that puts some of the world’s most vulnerable people at risk – a group that includes the cocoa farmers registered in our Cocoa Life program and their communities. The health and wellbeing of these communities, our employees, and our partners is our utmost priority at Mondelēz International and Cocoa Life, as we seek to provide an uninterrupted supply of sustainably sourced cocoa for our brands.

20200422

Cocoa Life - Investing in quality education for all children in the cocoa sector of Côte d'Ivoire

At Cocoa Life, we have a vision to make cocoa right. We know cocoa communities can only have a thriving future if the rights of children within them are protected, which is why we believe that the work of children is education and play. We are proud to share that, alongside the Ivorian government and industry peers and suppliers, Cocoa Life is investing in early childhood development and access to quality education in Côte d’Ivoire – one of our key cocoa growing countries – through two initiatives led by the Jacobs Foundation: CLEF & ELAN.

20200331

Cocoa Life - Impact Assessment of the Village Savings and Loans Association Program of Cocoa Life Ghana

A report developed by ABANTU for Development (Cocoa Life partner in Ghana)

20200326

Cocoa Life - Two years on: our progress in protecting and restoring forests

Last year we announced our ambitious action plans to protect and restore forests of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana as part of the Cocoa and Forests Initiative (CFI). We even went beyond to include an action plan for our third largest origin country, Indonesia. Today, we’re proud to report the significant progress we have been making since 2018 against our 2022 targets.

20191216

Cocoa Life - Five Years of Cocoa Life Empowering Cocoa Farmers in Indonesia

As we come to the end of 2019, we’re proud to be celebrating the first five years of Cocoa Life in Indonesia. We have worked hard to ensure that cocoa, the essential ingredient of chocolate, is made right – by promoting sustainable cocoa farming business, empowering communities to take on their own development and protecting the forests where cocoa grows

20190826

Cocoa Life - Lessons on impact: Empowering women for more sustainable cocoa communities

Women’s empowerment is high on the global agenda at the moment, and about time too.

20190530

Cocoa Life - Lessons on impact

At Cocoa Life we have been working closely with Ipsos, our research partner, to refine how we measure and evaluate the impact of the program in our cocoa origin countries.

20190530

Cocoa Life - Lessons on impact: Applying experimental and quasi-experimental methods in cocoa sustainability program evaluations

Working out whether or not your sustainability program is having the impact you intend is more complex than you might think. There’s heated debate around how to do it best, much of it pointing out that designing a perfect measurement methodology in theory is a lot more straightforward than applying it in practice. With this paper, we add the Cocoa Life perspective to the debate.

20190430

Cocoa Life - A major milestone to accelerate our journey

The Cocoa Life Annual Report 2018 highlights the journey so far and outlines the way forward for the Cocoa Life cocoa sustainability program.

20190305

Cocoa Life - Action plans to protect and restore forests, with farmers at the heart

Protecting and restoring forests with farmers at the heart

20181219

Cocoa Life - Celebrating 10 years of Cocoa Life in Ghana

This year marks 10 years since we started working on making cocoa sustainable in Ghana…

20181108

Cocoa Life - Growing sustainable cocoa in the heart of the Amazon

We are expanding the Cocoa Life program to empower at least 500 cocoa farmers and 1000 families in the north region of Brazil...

20181018

Cocoa Life - Pioneering forest protection work in Cote D’Ivoire

At Cocoa Life, combatting deforestation is a key priority built into our program. Our forests support the production of our cocoa.

20181004

Cocoa Life - Growing opportunities for women within cocoa communities

We are passionate about empowering women within Cocoa Life’s communities. This is because we care about these women and because it makes good ...

20180612

Cocoa Life - Every Day Against Child Labor - Our interventions in Ghana

Today is World Day Against Child Labor-an important awareness day to ensure more people understand what child labor is, as well as how and where it's happening.

20180529

Cocoa Life - A transformative partnership for education in Côte d'Ivoire

At Cocoa Life, we believe education is a key component to a sustainable cocoa supply chain; increasing cocoa farmers' knowledge and capacity leads to improved farming practices, productivity and cost effectiveness. Children are our future-and education is critical to helping them thrive.

20180409

Cocoa Life - Five Years of Cocoa Life: 2017 Progress Report

Cocoa Life is our long-term journey to create a vibrant cocoa supply chain while transforming the lives and livelihoods of cocoa farmers and their communities.