Approximately 1,000 farmers will receive training in the next 12 months. This is an extension of the earlier collaboration between Barry Callebaut and the independent certification body that began in Ivory Coast in 2010.
"We see a great opportunity to start work with farmers’ organisations and producers in Cameroon who are interested in improving yields and quality by growing cocoa in a sustainable way," said Nicholas Camu, group manager, Cocoa Horizons.
"It's the first time these farmer groups are taking a serious look at the potential benefits of training to achieve certification. We're proud to be collaborating with the Rainforest Alliance to help enable these pioneering cooperatives reach their ambitious sustainability goals."
Cocoa Horizons is Barry Callebaut's CHF 40 million cocoa sustainability initiative, launched in March 2012 and designed to boost farm productivity, increase quality and improve family livelihoods in key cocoa producing countries in West and Central Africa, Indonesia and Brazil over the next 10 years.
