Blog | Cocoa

Tackling Deforestation Report 2021
Nestlé advances its forest positive agenda in cocoa in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.
Ecuador: Agriculture and Entrepreneurship
Agripreneurship
Revisiting the children featured in the 2019 Tackling Child Labour Report
Access to Education: Ezechiel's Story
How cellphones are helping improve education outcomes
Education is at the heart of preventing child labour.
From child labour to apprenticeship
In Ghana, apprenticeships are helping older children gain skills for the future

Tackling Deforestation Report 2021

Nestlé advances its forest positive agenda in cocoa in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.

Ecuador: Agriculture and Entrepreneurship

Agripreneurship

Revisiting the children featured in the 2019 Tackling Child Labour Report

Access to Education: Ezechiel's Story

How cellphones are helping improve education outcomes

Education is at the heart of preventing child labour.

From child labour to apprenticeship

In Ghana, apprenticeships are helping older children gain skills for the future

Strong Roots for Better Cocoa

We’re working hard to end deforestation in cocoa supply chains and promote reforestation

COVID-19 and the Nestlé Cocoa Plan

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect on lives throughout the world. So far in West Africa the governments and people have kept rates low but we mustn’t lower our guard. The situation in other cocoa producing regions, such as South America, continues to be serious.

Is Nestlé having a positive effect on the lives of cocoa workers and their children in Côte d’Ivoire?

A new social impact evaluation of the Nestlé CLMRS by the Fair Labor Association concludes that,
“Sustainable, community-based interventions are driving awareness of child labor, and creating environments that promote school participation and adult workforce participation.”

Building financial literacy in Ghana

Empowering communities to manage their money via Village Savings and Loans Associations is a key part of the Nestlé Cocoa Plan

The benefits of farmer training

Kwame Hanson, a 47-year-old cocoa farmer from Ghana, talks about the training he has received as part of the Nestlé Cocoa Plan.