Project: Cacao-based Product Development

Goal

Train growing communities to manufacture cacao-based products for local and export markets.

Benefits

• Increases Income: 3-5x more income from cacao than fair trade premiums alone. Plus profit sharing in the case of some buying partners.
• Empowers Women: providing comprehensive training in food entrepreneurship. Based on typical divisions of labor between men and women, this training equips women to lead value-added activities in their local community.

Overview

Creating finished products offers tremendous sales opportunities by creating access to larger populations of customers and premium market segments.

Exporting also introduces greater complexity from convoluted foreign food regulations that are difficult to understand regardless of language proficiency.

We translate the tools and resources farming community organizations need to sell to consumers locally and around the world.   

Communities

In Partnership with Bon Fiction Chocolate - Rajamahendravaram, Andhra Pradesh, India