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Category: Agriculture

Conseil Café-Cacao declares war on cocoa operators with Lebanese ties

Yves Koné, the head of the cocoa industry watchdog, has suspended the operations of several cooperatives that are suspected of buying and reselling beans above the regulated price. The Conseil Café-Cacao (CCC), which is run by Yves Brahima Koné, has removed sales and purchase codes from some forty cocoa cooperatives suspected of secretly working with operators belonging to…
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May 17, 2024
Nestle program to increase income of bean farmers in Africa leaves workers below living wage, report says

🌍 The Swiss food giant has enrolled 11,000 farming households in the leading agricultural region of Cote d’Ivoire in a program that pays farmers $535 in bonuses, and is expanding the program to neighboring Ghana. “Those in the program still earn almost $3,000 a year below the amount of just over $7,500 that’s needed to…
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April 30, 2024
Cocoa farming in Liberia risks undermining EU deforestation law

JOHANNESBURG, April 22 (panafrican.email) – Farmers are clearing forests in Liberia to create cocoa plantations and are trafficking the beans into neighbouring Ivory Coast, undermining European efforts to curb deforestation, research by a conservation group showed on Monday. A law approved by the European Union and set to come into force at the end of this year…
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April 23, 2024