Welcome to cocoa CONNECT!
Cocoa CONNECT contributes to the ambition of the Dutch cocoa sector to ensure that cocoa consumption in the Netherlands is fully sustainable by 2025. By sharing the knowledge required to make the processes sustainable and by identifying learning questions of the various stakeholders and facilitating joint learning, this can be achieved.
Cocoa CONNECT plays this role of knowledge broker: putting knowledge that contributes to sustainable cocoa in the public domain. If you are registered, you can post new documents yourself!
Cocoa CONNECT focuses primarily on knowledge domains where people, relations and policies are central. If you are interested in connecting to institutes and platforms that have expertise in the more technical domain of sustainable cocoa we connect you to Crops & Soil.
Visitors are invited to actively participate and contribute to this portal, by searching for and sharing of knowledge, meeting experts and providing expertise, and to discuss and learn together.
There is a growing concern that the cocoa supply will reduce in the future. Not because there is no demand for cocoa products but because being a cocoa farmer is not perceived as a lucrative business. A sustainable cocoa economy requires that a family farm earns enough income with its cocoa production. Technologies, services and organization can help to achieve this goal.
Under this theme you can share, meet and learn on a number of topics, which put the (family) farm first!
Sustainable cocoa goes beyond cocoa production. It is also about cocoa trade, storage, transport, processing, the making of chocolate and chocolate consumption, and making these different stages of the chain sustainable. Sustainable cocoa is also about arrangements and relations: how do different actors in the chain cooperate and compete? What systems and arrangements are in place that hinder or support direct sourcing and sustainable service delivery models?
Under this theme you can learn on arrangements, best practices, the cocoa chain and find out more about the impact on cocoa farmers and their families.
The cocoa chain (or a cocoa farmer) does not work in isolation. It is embedded in an environment that influences its functioning. "Markets&policies" is about the context that shapes the reality of cocoa farming and how sustainability fits in.
Under this theme you can learn on economic, social and environmental policies. You can also find out more about price developments, risk mitigation and links between cocoa production and food security.
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