{"id":5231,"date":"2019-09-11T09:31:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T06:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5231"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","slug":"ivory-coast-ghana-looking-to-regulate-cocoa-industrys-sustainability-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/11\/ivory-coast-ghana-looking-to-regulate-cocoa-industrys-sustainability-schemes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast, Ghana Looking To Regulate Cocoa Industry&#8217;s Sustainability Schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By Thomson Reuters<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cocoa industry&#8217;s efforts to source\nsustainably have been around for years, though little has changed for farmers,\nwith poverty widespread and forest cover all but decimated<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ivory\nCoast and Ghana will meet major chocolate makers and grinders in Abidjan on\ntoday to make plans to regulate the industry&#8217;s efforts to source cocoa\nsustainably, multiple trade and government sources told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nplan comes after years of attempts by industry to self-monitor their\nsustainable sourcing practices and wipe out the blight of child labour and\ndeforestation from the cocoa sector in West Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Industry\nfears the new move might represent a major and costly overhaul of the\ncertification schemes they use to boost their brands in highly competitive\nmarkets where both consumers and investors are growing increasingly\neco-conscious. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20190910163716-uium6\/\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomson Reuters The cocoa industry&#8217;s efforts to source sustainably have been around for years, though little has changed for farmers, with poverty widespread and forest cover all but decimated&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}