As part of our FCPF efforts of leveraging private sector through activities and engagement in specific supply chain to drive reduction in deforestation, we are working on 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 private sector through activities and engagement in specific supply chains to drive 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 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.
These is a ten-month program (please see here for details: Full program ), divided in 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)
On Thursday June 17th ,at 10:00 ET/ 16:00 CET, we are conveying these actors to session 6 on International Cocoa Context. The session. Will consist of two panels over a dialogue on how the international context is moving into a long-term resilient cocoa value chain in terms of equity, inclusion, climate change and market challenges guided by new consumer tendencies and legislations. (Please, see agenda attached)
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:
We will be offered virtually with simultaneous translation in three languages: English, French, Spanish.