30 Mar 2020 --- Barry Callebaut has issued a progress update on The Cocoa & Forests Initiative (CFI), launched in 2017 at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP23). The ongoing commitment is spearheaded by the world’s largest cocoa producing countries – Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, in ties with civil society and leading chocolate companies – to end deforestation and restore forests. Oliver von Hagen, Director Global Ingredients Sustainability and Carbon, and Forest Programs, speaks in detail about how Barry Callebaut leverages farm mapping technology to exclude cocoa sourcing from farms breaching the boundaries of forest conservation.
