News from ICI
- If you want to go far, go together: Revisiting the 2016 World Cocoa Foundation meeting23 January 2017On January 18th, the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) released a meeting summary for their 2016 Partnership Meeting & Cocoa Sustainability Trade Fair - a welcomed opportunity to revisit the event and its key findings. Taking place in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, the WCF co-hosted the meeting with the Ivorian Conseil du Café-Cacao. More than 550 participants from around the world joined discussions about sustainable cocoa farming, emerging technologies for farm productivity and many more. The International Cocoa Initiative was present, on the CocoaAction panel but also as an interested listener of theRead more
- Opening of the new public primary school in Didoko, Cote d'Ivoire4 December 2016The International Cocoa Initiative and its member Nestlé inaugurated the new primary school in Didoko (department of Divo, Côte d'Ivoire) on March 30th 2016.Read more
- World Cocoa Foundation meeting: ICI participates in the 28th meeting of the WCF partners1 November 2016On 26 and 27 October, ICI participated in the 28th meeting of the World Cocoa Foundation’s partners across various panel discussions. The theme of the first panel was: “What is the sector’s situationRead more
- Nestlé and ICI improve access to education for cocoa farmers’ children4 October 2016On September 28, 2016, ICI and its partner Nestlé, symbolically opened a newly built school of seven classrooms. Cocoa growing communities in the department of Aboisso were also supplied with 331Read more
- ICI trains its industry partners in Ghana4 October 2016Sustainable cocoa farming implies that producers, their families, and the wider cocoa growing community around them use modern labour practices that are safer and do not involve the use of childRead more
- Community service groups help farmers and increase child protection27 September 2016Over the past five months, cocoa farmers in 15 cocoa growing communities in the Ashanti region of Ghana, have been benefitting from the services of volunteers at affordable prices. Called CommunityRead more
- Cross-border trafficking and worst forms of child labour : Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana sign an accord14 September 2016On the 13th September 2016 in Abidjan, Madame Dominique Ouattara, First Lady of Côte d’Ivoire, and Mrs Lordina Dramani Mahama, First Lady of Ghana, signed a joint declaration committing Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana to the elimination of cross-border trafficking and the worst forms of child labour.Read more