“We believe index insurance can play a significant role in sustainable and economically viable risk management and mitigation for smallholder farmers in the cocoa value chain.”
„We provide input technology, knowledge, and services to transform how crops are grown and protected and in doing so support sustainable cocoa production.”
Interview with Johannes Läderach, CEO of the Swiss family business Läderach Chocolatier Suisse about the Cocoa Tech Bridge value chain project.
“The students that SWISSCO’s university partners are educating are future change agents, innovators, and decision-makers. Therefore, we seek to strengthen their sustainability competencies.”
Poverty in many cocoa producing countries is persistent - including Peru. It clearly highlights the urgency to add an economic factor to the sustainability efforts of the industry. The true costs of environmentally and socially sound production practices must be included into the equation. For the cocoa sector to be sustainable, growing cocoa must in the first place make business sense to farmers.
Partnering with the Springfield Centre, Swisscontact has made an insightful synthesis of the Sustainable Cocoa Production Program (SCPP) in Indonesia, which over close to 10 years evolved into a pioneering and globally leading Public-Private Development Partnership. The legacy of this flagship program supported by key donor SECO goes well beyond the 165’000 farmers reached but encompasses numerous lessons learnt in how and under what conditions to best support cocoa farming families in terms of productivity increase, income diversification, climate resilience, food security and access to finance.
Interview with Fairtrade International and Fairtrade Max Havelaar Switzerland about their study regarding Cocoa Farmers Income. What surprising results the study had in store and what conclusions Fairtrade draw from the study.
Interview with Roselyn Fosuah Adjei about her experiences in the sector of Climate & Nature Finance in Ghana, what the cocoa sectors in other producing countries can learn from Ghana’s experiences in Climate & Nature finance and how SWISSCO and the platform’s members can contribute to reaching Ghana’s climate goals in the cocoa sector.
Interview with Christina Tewes-Gradl and Piera Waibel of Endeva about ii2030 Regenerative Cocoa, their method for catalyzing systems change to achieve development goals.
