Towards sustainable cocoa: financial solutions for smallholders in Côte d’Ivoire

When you buy a chocolate bar, it’s quite likely that the cocoa in it came from Côte d’Ivoire, the world’s top producer. If so, it is almost certain that the cocoa plants were grown where dense rainforest once stood. 

Expansion of cocoa production into new areas is amongst the main drivers of deforestation in Côte d’Ivoire. At current rates, the country will lose all its forest cover by 2034. Decoupling cocoa production from deforestation is therefore crucial if Côte d’Ivoire is to achieve its goals of producing zero-deforestation cocoa and restoring forest cover to 20% of its territory by 2030.

In this post, published on the OECD's Development Matters blog, our EU REDD Facility colleague Adeline Dontenville explains how to develop deforestation-free supply chains in Côte d'Ivoire’s cocoa sector. 

Read the full post: https://oecd-development-matters.org/2018/06/21/towards-sustainable-coc…