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Making Sustainable Chocolate

THE NORM
Barry Callebaut, a leading manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products, has announced that 44% of the cocoa
and 44% of the other ingredients that the group uses for its
products are sustainably sourced. "With now 44% of our ingredients coming from sustainable sources, we are well on track to
make sustainable chocolate the norm by 2025," says Antoine
de Saint-Affrique, chief executive officer 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."
Barry Callebaut's Forever Chocolate is based on four ambitious targets to be achieved by 2025 that address the largest

Callebaut's Farm Services business. They received coaching

sustainability challenges in the chocolate supply chain:

and other inputs such as tools and seedlings or support to
access ﬁnance. Furthermore, the group supported cocoa

* Lift more than 500,000 cocoa farmers out of poverty

farmers in replanting 281 hectares (+60%) with young cocoa

* Eradicate child labor from its supply chain

trees, as well as other crops that provide shade, and help cocoa

* Become carbon and forest positive

farmers to diversify their income.

* Have 100% sustainable ingredients in all its products
With the support of ICI, Barry Callebaut continues to implement
The company's sustainable products include its Cocoa Horizons

monitoring and remediation systems designed to eradicate child

program, as well as its customers' own programs and external

labor. This constitutes on-the-ground household and farm visits

certiﬁcation such as UTZ Certiﬁed, Rainforest Alliance, Fairtrade

to survey practices concerning child employment and education

and Organic. Furthermore, Barry Callebaut sourced 44% of its

in cocoa farming communities. These surveys identify children

non-cocoa agricultural raw materials sustainably. This includes

performing hazardous tasks and allow well-founded estimates

the use of sustainability certiﬁcation schemes for the respective

of the prevalence of the worst forms of child labor to be made.

ingredients.

In 2017-18, the group conducted monitoring and remediation
in 21 farmer groups covering 12,018 farmers in Côte d'Ivoire

In order to lift more than 500,000 farmers out of poverty, Barry

and Ghana. Barry Callebaut established that 12% of the farmer

Callebaut announced that it is building datasets with detailed

groups it directly sources from in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana have

location, agronomic, economic and social survey data on the

systems in place to prevent, monitor and remediate child labor.

already been mapped. These unique datasets allow Barry

In order to become carbon positive, Barry Callebaut not only

Callebaut to ensure that the mapped cocoa farms are not

looks at the carbon footprint created by its own operations

located in protected forest areas. In addition, they allow the

(scope 1) and energy use (scope 2), but also takes into account

company to create tailor-made sustainability programs to help

the carbon footprint of the entire supply chain (scope 3),

address the key issues of the mapped cocoa farming communi-

including the production and processing of all raw materials

ties. As part of its work with farmers, the group distributed over

and related land use changes. The carbon footprint of the

2.1 million young cocoa seedlings, as well as close to 400,000

group's supply chain from farm to customer was 9.1 million tons

shade trees. In 2017-18, 12,395 farmers in Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana,

of CO2e in 2017-18. Of the group's factories, 14 out of 59 (24%)

Cameroon, Tanzania, Brazil and Indonesia participated in Barry

are now running on 100% renewable energy.

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cocoa farms in its supply chain. More than 130,000 farms have

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