Best Practices - Making Cocoa Fairer

Making cocoa fairer

Best practices from the craft chocolate industry on increasing farmer income and improving equity across the cocoa value chain.

Shawn Askinosie shares about investing in community development projects with cocoa farming communities.

Leila Carvajal Erker of Cocoa Supply shares about the efficiencies of Direct Trade and the scale needed to benefit farmers.

Shawn Askinosie shares about investing in relationship with cocoa farming partners and how it impacts quality.

Shawn Askinosie shares about creating contracts with prepayment terms to provide access to capital for cocoa farming partners.

David Upchurch Chocolatier in San Francisco shares about benefits of working with single origin Ecuadorian couverture chocolate made in Ecuador.

Leila Carvajal Erker of Cocoa Supply shares about creating total transparency in craft chocolate from farm to maker.

Jenny Samaniego of Conexión Chocolate in Ecuador shares about benefits of making chocolate in origin.

Monica Rogan of Goodnow Farms shares about paying a quality bonus to cocoa farmers.

Shawn Askinosie shares about profit sharing with cocoa farming partners.