It has been a while! For the past year and a half, I have been working at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome. At the FAO, I was working on an exciting partnership with Google… Read More ›
Ghana
Why gender matters in the cocoa value chain
When world leaders meet at the United Nations in New York next September for a Special Summit on Sustainable Development, their minds won’t necessarily be on chocolate. Their task will be to agree on new Sustainable Development Goals to replace… Read More ›
Are we really running out of chocolate?
Amid the media hype over fears of a worldwide shortage of cocoa caused by surging chocolate consumption in emerging markets like India, China and Brazil, how are chocolate industry leaders addressing sustainability issues in the global supply chain? In their… Read More ›
Cocoa is Ghana, Ghana is Cocoa…
Cocoa is Ghana, Ghana is Cocoa – as the saying goes here. Ghana is the world’s second largest exporter of cocoa beans after the Ivory Coast. Historically, cocoa production has been the mainstay of the Ghanaian economy and today cocoa… Read More ›
