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Chocolate maker is up from last year's 36%, looking to produce 100% sustainable cocoa by 2025.
Barry Callebaut now produces 44 percent of its cocoa and 44 percent of its other ingredients sustainably. That's according to the chocolate maker's
Forever Chocolate Progress Report for fiscal year 2017-2018.
"With now 44 percent of our ingredients coming from sustainable sources we are well on track to make sustainable chocolate the norm by 2025," said Antoine de Saint-Affrique, ceo of the Barry Callebaut Group. "Through our sourcing, processing and sales, we are driving change, supporting cocoa farming communities and driving the uptake of sustainably sourced chocolate."
Forever Chocolate is based on four ambitious targets, to be achieved by 2025, that address the largest sustainability challenges in the chocolate supply chain.
* Lift more than 500,000 cocoa farmers out of poverty
* Eradicate child labor from its supply chain
* Become carbon and forest positive
* Have 100 percent sustainable ingredients in all its products
Sustainable chocolate
Of all the agricultural raw materials Barry Callebaut sourced, 44 percent were sustainably sourced in 2017/18. The group sourced 44 percent of cocoa beans through sustainability programs, compared to 36 percent the previous year.
This percentage includes the group's Cocoa Horizons program, as...