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Pilots are Underway

Industry and stakeholders are moving ahead to implement a series of different "Pilot Programs" that will help thousands of cocoa farming families while testing different approaches to ensuring that cocoa is grown responsibly.

In The Cameroon, we just completed a training session in The Cameroon for educators who will work with several thousand farmers throughout West Africa. Educators were trained on labor sensitization, responsible, sustainable cocoa growing techniques

Our programs to help improve farmer incomes are underway throughout the region. In Cameroon, the industry's Sustainable Tree Crops Program (STCP) focused on the point in cocoa farming where farmers sell their crop - an area of opportunity to help boost farmer incomes. STCP representatives trained Cameroon farmer organizations in business planning, marketing and accounting, and then established 300 sales points throughout the country where farmers could sell their cocoa as a group - thereby increasing their economic leverage. The result: farmers participating in this one program alone earned approximately 20 percent more for their cocoa crop.