The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) and Cote d'Ivoire's Conseil du Café-Cacao have reached an agreement to improve cocoa planting material. This new agreement is part of the Ivorian government's 2QC national cocoa strategy. WCF ...
Tags: World Cocoa Foundation, Material, Food
Hundreds of members of the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) and leaders from the global cocoa sector have convened in Copenhagen, Denmark to take further crucial steps toward implementing a comprehensive strategy, called CocoaAction, to sustain ...
Senior executives from 12 of the world's largest chocolate and cocoa companies are signing a joint agreement with the Government of Ghana as part of an unprecedented strategy to accelerate actions to make cocoa farming in the country ...
The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) is investing $3m to support cocoa improvement projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The initiative will use a range of methods including internet resources, mobile phone technology and microfinance ...
Tags: Cocoa, Agriculture, Food
Pickit and Packit has reported a swift start to 2013 after introducing new work transporters and an automatic coder. The new capacity has led to an expansion of work from the bottled alcohol industry in particular and the company, based in ...
US chocolate manufacturer Hershey has announced that its CocoaLink mobile technology program is expanding to Ivory Coast, the world’s largest producer of cocoa. The CocoaLink program provides farm training through low-cost messages ...
Tags: chocolate, Mobile Technology
Welsh Country Foods (WCF) is closing its lamb processing business in the Island of Anglesey, UK, with immediate effect, a move which will result in 310 job losses. The plant closure comes after the completion of a 90-day consultation ...
The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF), Swiss chocolate manufacturer Lindt & Sprungli are partnering with the US Department of Agriculture to support genetics research on fine-flavor cocoa varieties grown in Ecuador. The USDA's Agricultural ...
Tags: chocolate, cocoa, Agricultural
The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) and US-based chocolate producer TCHO have entered into a partnership to introduce innovations and quality improvements to cocoa grown in Ghana. As a part of the project, WCF and TCHO will set up a Flavor ...
Tags: WCF, TCHO, Cocoa Crop Project
Unite the union has urged Asda to reinstate its contract with Welsh Country Foods (WCF). The plea comes after WCF’s owner Vion UK warned that losing the contract could force the closure of the Anglesey site with the loss of up to 350 ...
Tags: Unite the union, Asda, Welsh Country Foods