Cocoa Knowledge Center · 2 guides
Who cacao is good for
Sustainability in cacao is not a marketing label. It is a complex challenge that touches farmer livelihoods, deforestation, child labor and the certification systems meant to address them, and it asks a hard question: who actually benefits from the chocolate industry?
These guides look at the full picture of sustainability in cacao, and at how craft chocolate built on direct relationships differs from the commodity system that has long undervalued cacao farmers.
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What this hub covers
- Farmer livelihoods and income
- Deforestation and land use
- Certifications and their limits
- Craft vs. commodity chocolate
Written from origin
These Guides and articles are our own experiences and research. Leila Carvajal Erker, founder of CocoaSupply, a chemical engineer (WPI '96). We work directly with smallholder farmers, and our family has been working with Ecuadorian cacao for four generations, from farming, to processing and distribution.
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