As part of our FCPF efforts of leveraging the private sector through activities and engagement in a specific supply chain to drive the reduction in deforestation, we are working on the cocoa sector by promoting sustainable cocoa initiatives through agroforestry.
The Cocoa & Forest Knowledge Exchange program is part of the objective of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) of leveraging the private sector through activities and engagement in specific supply chains to drive the reduction in deforestation. Alisos and Kinomé, with the support of the WCPF and World Bank country teams, is organizing a series of webinars with participants from Ghana, Ivory Coast, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, and the Dominican Republic to connect exchange and learn the different realities in cocoa-producing countries. This initiative seeks to promote and strengthen a global network of sustainable cocoa actors.
This is a ten-month program (please see here for details: Full program ), divided into two phases:
1) The first five sessions were conducted with a core of key cocoa stakeholders from each country building alliances and expanding technical knowledge and experiences.
2) This month we are starting a new phase bringing together stakeholders of the cocoa value chain as well as interested organizations, initiatives, and institutions. In the following five sessions, participants will be able to connect, exchange, and learn different realities in cocoa production, processing, distribution, and commercialization. (For more information, please see the Wider Group Brochure)
Our Agenda is here for the 7th session of the Cocoa & Forests Knowledge Exchange - African and Latin American cocoa context Jul 15, 2021, 10:00 AM in Eastern Time. It would be a pleasure to have you participate and please feel free to share the invite as relevant.
The registration link for the session is here. Please find the French and Spanish translated versions here.
We will be offered virtually with simultaneous translation in three languages: English, French, Spanish.