OUR COCOA
100% of the cocoa volume we source for Nutella® will come from Rainforest Alliance Certified™ or UTZ certified farms by the end of 2020.
Cocoa farmers face several economic and social issues, and this is why Ferrero made a commitment in 2011 to responsibly source 100% certified cocoa beans by 2020 to help improve their living conditions and foster sustainable practices. By sourcing cocoa from Rainforest Alliance Certifed™ and UTZ certified farms we help improve the livelihoods of farmers and their families and conserve natural resources and biodiversity (discover more: www.ra.org). Certified farms have to follow strict criteria to help ensure environmental, social and economic sustainability. Certification and traceability are the starting point of Ferrero's sustainability approach, but we also go beyond certification to increase our impact on the ground.
Supporting farmers
The vast majority of the world’s cocoa is produced by smallholder farmers, most of whom live in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana where we mainly source our cocoa. These two countries together account for more than 60% of the world’s cocoa production. Those farmers encounter the complexities of economic, social and environmental issues, such as lack of access to resources, limited knowledge of good agricultural practices and climate change.
Through the implementation of the Ferrero Farming Values Cocoa Programme, we are committed to supporting them in adopting sustainable agricultural practices aimed at increasing cocoa productivity and income diversification. This in turn will contribute to improve their livelihoods and that of their communities. We are also moving to a more personalised support for farmers through individual Farm Development Plans to increase positive change.
El conocimiento es empoderamiento
Y creemos firmemente en ello. Es por eso que en nuestras Escuelas de Campo para Agricultores, ofrecemos capacitaciones a los agricultores en buenas prácticas agrícolas, sociales y ambientales. Permitimos a los agricultores poner en práctica estos conocimientos proporcionando acceso a plántulas, fertilizantes y acceso a la financiación, con el fin de mejorar no sólo sus cultivos, sino también sus vidas. En 2021-2022, capacitamos a más de 155,000 agricultores y distribuimos 1.7 millones de plántulas de cacao.
Farmers' voices
Before, I produced 450 Kilograms of cocoa per year. Now, since I started applying good agricultural practices and my field is well kept, I grow more. With the knowledge that I have now, I have more than doubled my harvest, which gives me over 300,000 CFA francs more this year.
dice Momboye Célestin, uno de los muchos productores de cacao que han participado en capacitaciones para agricultores organizadas por ECOOKIM, socio de Ferrero.
ECOOKIM es un sindicato que representa a 37,000 productores de cacao en Costa de Marfil. En 2021-2022, obtuvimos cacao en grano de 10 de sus cooperativas y más de 15,000 agricultores recibieron capacitación en nuestras escuelas de campo para agricultores. Gracias a estos esfuerzos, estos agricultores han visto un aumento significativo en el rendimiento y los ingresos del cacao.
Protecting children's rights
Ferrero is committed to promote the human rights of children. For the children in our cocoa supply-chain this means taking action to tackle child labour and improve access to education and basic needs such as water, sanitation and good nutrition. We are sensitizing farmers on the rights of children and we are implementing systems designed to identify and remediate cases of child labour, also called CLMRS (Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System). Remediation can vary from individualized support to children and parents to broader child-centered community development programs that aim to implement mechanisms to protect children, strengthen the educational infrastructure and promote women empowerment.
We also actively support initiatives that have a broader scope than our direct supply-chain. For example, since 2008 we are members of the International Cocoa Initiative, a multi-stakeholder platform that aims to ensure a better future for children and to advance the elimination of child labour.
Going forward
En Ferrero estamos comprometidos en asegurar que nuestro cacao no provenga de áreas protegidas y no contrubya a la deforestación.
Como miembros fundadores del Cocoa & Forests Initiative (CFI), estamos comprometidos en trabajar en colaboración con otras compañías lideres globalmente en la industria del cacao y el chocolate, al igual que con los gobiernos de Costa de Marfil y Ghana, para eliminar la deforestación y degradación forestal en toda la cadena de suministro mundial del cacao.
Puedes leer sobre nuestro Plan de Acción de CFI aquí y sobre nuestro informe de progreso de CFI aquí.
En Ferrero, nuestra ambición es contar con una industria de cacao que sea positiva para las personas y el planeta, por ello estamos completamente dedicados a contar con una cadena de abastecimiento responsable del cacao, y como parte de esto creamos nuestra Carta Compromiso de Cacao. La carta establece nuestros compromisos a largo plazo y nuestro plan de acción estipula cómo trabajaremos para lograrlo.
Nuestro apoyo cada vez mayor a la agrosilvicultura
Incentivamos a los productores de cacao a diversificar sus cultivos intercalando el cultivo de árboles de cacao con árboles frutales, verduras o árboles de madera para proporcionar sombra a los árboles jóvenes de cacao, éstos cultivos se pueden vender para consumo doméstico o en los mercados locales. Este tipo de sistemas tienen una contribución significativa a la protección del medio ambiente y a la biodiversidad.
Como parte de nuestro acuerdo con Cocoa and Forests Initiative, entre el 2018 2022, Ferrero contribuyó al desarrollo de más de 143,000 ha. agroforestales de cacao en Costa de Marfil y Ghana y distribuyó a los productores locales 5.4 millones de árboles como parte de proyectos agroforestales.
Did you know?
Agroforesty is a dynamic and ecological resource management system that, through the integration of trees on farms, diversifies and sustains production leading to increased social, economic and environmental benefits. Agroforestry is essential to smallholder farmers because it can allow them to improve their food supply, income and health. Agroforestry also helps to combat climate change.
Strengthening our sustainability program
Moving forward, we will continue working to strengthen our cocoa sustainability program with a positive and lasting impact on the cocoa value-chain. We will do this along three pillars that are closely connected and reinforce each other:
1. Improve the livelihoods of farmers and communities
2. Protect children’s rights
3. Safeguard the natural capital
An important cornerstone of the program is to have full traceability back to the farmers that supply the cocoa that goes inside Nutella®.
