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Bittersweet: Vote now for the winner!
Voting is now open! Choose which photo you think best expresses a passion for fair-trade chocolate.
Lidl: On their way to sustainability
We recently heard from Lidl, Europe’s biggest discount supermarket chain, that it has committed to certifying two of its home brand chocolates, Fin Carré and Bellarom. Their brand Bellarom is now 64 percent Rainforest Alliance certified. And as of this week, their best-selling and most affordable brand Fin Carré will wear the Utz certified seal. It commits to increase its Utz certified chocolate, which started last year, from 10 percent to a 100 percent in 2020.
A bitter Easter for Ivorian cocoa farmers
As Easter approaches, following a bitter conflict, there is hope for an end to the political crisis in Cote d’Ivoire, as President Alassane Outtara assumes office. While a humanitarian emergency in the country remains, it is expected that the export of cocoa – the country’s main crop – will be resumed shortly. VOICE, the European cocoa network of NGOs, and unions calls upon the cocoa industry to expand and accelerate their efforts for a sustainable cocoa sector – free of the worst forms of child labour.
Addicted to chocolate
Nowadays, finding a bar of chocolate to boost your energy level is easy. However, contrary to chocolate’s easy availability, the production of its main ingredient, cocoa, is still a rather complicated matter.
