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Due diligence / Eight reasons proposed UK law won’t stop consumption driving global deforestation

Illegal Deforestation Monitor

Indirect supply chains pose major deforestation risk for global cocoa industry

26.03.2020 Study emphasises threats major firms face in not having a full picture of suppliers

Zero-deforestation / Analysis of corporate efforts to fight deforestation accuses Amazon, Nike and other big brands of falling short

Nestlé / Food giant dumps Cargill’s Brazilian soy but questions remain over its palm oil, cocoa supplies

Peruvian Amazon / UN deadline looms for country to revisit law threatening 100,000 hectares of Amazon

Illegal Deforestation Monitor

Illegal deforestation and child labour are the real horrors at Halloween

29.10.2019 Increasing global appetites for chocolate during the holiday period will benefit a cocoa industry that has failed to reform for two decades

West Africa / Ghana and Ivory Coast attempt to raise farmers’ incomes as cocoa industry fails to clean up its act

Illegal Deforestation Monitor

Prosecutor targets ‘ringleader’ Dennis Melka in Peru cacao case

19.08.2019 It comes after staff at Melka firm sentenced for links to illegal deforestation

'Worst company in the world' / US trading giant Cargill named in Mighty Earth report amid illegal deforestation and child labour allegations

Illegal Deforestation Monitor

Are KitKat sales helping line the pockets of a man who bribed Indonesia’s top judge?

05.07.2019 Purchases in Malaysia by Wilmar, the world’s largest palm oil trader, are helping fund deforestation in neighbouring Indonesia, to the benefit of a criminal businessman

Indirect supply chains pose major deforestation risk for global cocoa industry

Illegal deforestation and child labour are the real horrors at Halloween

Prosecutor targets ‘ringleader’ Dennis Melka in Peru cacao case

Are KitKat sales helping line the pockets of a man who bribed Indonesia’s top judge?

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