WCF AFRICAN COCOA INITIATIVE PARTNERSHIP LAUNCHED

The WCF African Cocoa Initiative (ACI) is a public-private partnership, bringing together the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF), cocoa industry members*, the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) and US Agency for International Development (USAID) through its Global Development Alliance and Bureau for Food Security, in concert with key government institutions in the four countries of Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria.

WCF/ACI is a $13.5 million, 5-year program with the goal of improving African agriculture systems through targeting of the cocoa sector and the nearly 2 million smallholder farmers that depend on cocoa for their livelihoods. WCF/ACI will introduce activities across the cocoa economies in the region that address the key areas of the economic prosperity, protecting the environment, and community and social development at the national levels. The program aims to double cocoa productivity for 100,000 farm households and in doing so raise per capita income by 150-200%.  

*Private sector funding for this program comes from WCF member companies ADM Cocoa, Barry Callebaut, Blommer Chocolate Company, Cargill, Continaf BV, Ferrero, Guittard Chocolate Company, The Hershey Company, Kraft Foods, Lindt & Sprüngli, Nestlé, and Olam International Ltd.

Read more about WCF/ACI here.

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"Empowering Cocoa Communities" 2011 (1.73 MB)