{"id":5666,"date":"2019-10-01T11:03:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T08:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5666"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","slug":"shifting-the-needle-on-cocoa-production-practices-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/01\/shifting-the-needle-on-cocoa-production-practices-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifting The Needle On Cocoa Production Practices Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By UN\nEnvironment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did you know that, typically,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.confectionerynews.com\/Article\/2014\/07\/10\/Price-of-Chocolate-Breaking-poverty-cycle-in-cocoa-farming\">less than 7 percent<\/a>\u00a0of the price of your chocolate bar goes to cocoa producers? Or that large amounts of global cocoa production are associated with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/openknowledge.worldbank.org\/bitstream\/handle\/10986\/26549\/114812-5-5-2017-12-49-5-Cocoafinal.pdf?sequence=8&amp;isAllowed=y\">illegal deforestation and biodiversity losses<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners have\nbeen working for many years on projects aimed at making the cocoa industry more\nenvironmentally friendly and sustainable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Greening the Cocoa Industry<\/em>\u00a0is one of those projects. Its objective is to change production and business practices in major cocoa-producing countries and chocolate companies, towards conserving biodiversity, providing greater long-term stability to all value chain participants, and increasing income for smallholder farmers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/shifting-needle-cocoa-production-practices-worldwide\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment Did you know that, typically,\u00a0less than 7 percent\u00a0of the price of your chocolate bar goes to cocoa producers? Or that large amounts of global cocoa production are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5667,"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-5666","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\/5666","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=5666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}