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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

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

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

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

Illegal Deforestation Monitor

As EU demand for its cocoa surges, illegal deforestation threatens to destroy “critical forest corridor” in Nigeria

31.05.2019 Afi River Forest Reserve is losing 'large tracts' of primary forest believed to be a result of illegal land clearing for cocoa cultivation

Cocoa regulation / MEPs and NGOs urge EU to act to stem deforestation in the industry after the failure of voluntary measures

Cocoa / Ghana lost 75% of its forest cover between 1900 and 2010, and 2% of its forests continue to disappear every year

Illegal Deforestation Monitor

World’s biggest chocolate firms driving deforestation in Ivory Coast

15.09.2017

Indirect supply chains pose major deforestation risk for global cocoa industry

Illegal deforestation and child labour are the real horrors at Halloween

As EU demand for its cocoa surges, illegal deforestation threatens to destroy “critical forest corridor” in Nigeria

World’s biggest chocolate firms driving deforestation in Ivory Coast

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