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World Cocoa Foundation
Primary school children from the village of Detroya assisting ECHOES agricultural training programme for youth and young adults organised by the World Cocoa Foundation
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In 2000, Nestlé and other chocolate companies formed the World Cocoa Foundation. The WCF was set up specifically to deal with issues facing cocoa farmers (disease had wiped out much of the cocoa crop in Brazil) including ineffective farming techniques and poor environmental management. The WCF focuses on boosting farmer income, encouraging sustainable farming techniques and environmental and social programmes. To cite just one example of its work, by the end of next year, some 340,000 children will have benefited from WCF-supported education programmes and 8,800 teachers will have been trained.
Farmer field schools supported through WCF-partnerships have also reached over 300,000 cocoa farmers in West Africa, Latin America and South East Asia, with farmer graduates reporting up to 50 percent income improvements and safer farming practices.
To learn more about the World Cocoa Foundation, visit www.worldcocoa.org
