Our Impact - Transparence Cacao

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Good chocolate, grown right

As our program is named Transparence Cacao, we are transparent about our sourcing, our objectives and our progress so far. Our team works directly with farmers and communities to monitor our activities and follow up our indicators.
Check our 2024 results here.

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Our levels of commitment

Préférence

The cocoa is carefully selected according to our Transparence Cacao standard, from cooperatives that we support in their sustainability strategy (environmental and social), in particular by training farmers in good agricultural practices.

Traceability to the farmers is guaranteed and a Transparence Cacao premium is paid.

Excellence

A fine cocoa, which expresses its full aromatic profile thanks to a fermentation and drying process precisely controlled by the teams at the fermentation centres. Like Préférence level, we apply Transparence Cacao standard and support the community.

The traceability to the farmers is guaranteed and a Transparence Cacao Premium is paid.

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Our objectives & roadmap

Our objectives to make the cocoa sector more sustainable.

We are pursuing the goal of 100% traceability to plots for all cocoa beans, butter and other half fabricates at the beginning of 2025.

In our vision Living income is a basic human right. This is for us the main principle and for this reason, we are committed to enable all cocoa farmers in our Transparence Cacao program to earn a living income latest by 2030.

In addition to our commitment to tackle cocoa-related deforestation, it is our objective to achieve 50% in Ivory Coast by 2025 and 100% agroforestry by 2030.

We aim to reduce the overall use of agrochemicals.

Want to know more about our objectives and progress so far?
Check our 2024 results report here.

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Our results so far: Traceability

100%

of our beans are traceable back to the cooperative

100%

of our beans are traceable to the farmer (Préférence and Excellence level)

100%

of our Ivorian plots are mapped by GPS polygon mapping

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Our results so far: Improving farmer’s income

On the supervised plots, on average, our coaching and support have enabled farmers to

increase their yield by +15.5%

40% of supervised plots achieved a minimum yeld of 1,000 kg/ha

Since 2021,

9,788

individuals

benefitted from our Income Generative Activities, including 6,963 women.

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Our results so far: Providing access to education and empowering women

In 2024, 521 Village Savings & Loan Association (VSLA) were active thanks to our support. The VSLA provide financial support, microcredit, and savings to 14,327 members, including 12,270 women.

A total of 6,963 women benefit from empowerment projects & activities, including literacy classes.

Since the implementation in 2020 of our specific Child Labour prevention plan “Plan de Prévention et de Lutte contre le Travail des enfants” (PPLTE) that has been developed in Côte d’Ivoire: more than 69% of cooperatives have been sensitized on this topic.

Our goal is not to only tackle child labour, we also work to develop children’s access and success at school. Since 2022, we coordinated and funded a children’s birth registration project (375 certicates), distributed kits with school supplies and organised extra-curricular courses.

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