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Direct sourcing is one of the strategies used by global cocoa companies, including Cargill in Vietnam, Chocolats Halab from Switzerland, and Luker Cocoa in Colombia. It allows these companies a more direct involvement with improving sustainability, extension, certification, and livelihoods.

Several tracking/traceability mecahanisms are presented, e.g.: identity preservation, the COCOBOD system in Ghana and traceability from cooperatives. All the models described for cocoa tracking and traceability systems, more than recover the additional costs in premiums paid by buyers which will...

This presentation by the Cocoa Sustainability Director for Certification & Community Development at Mars Global Chocolate was delivered at the ISEAL 2012 Conference Public Day in the conference session: The Growing Demand for Impact Data. It addresses issues like the economic sustainability...