Mondelēz International Commits to Using 100% Sustainable Cocoa by 2025

Mondelēz International has announced its commitment that by 2025 the Cocoa Life sustainability program will deliver 100% of the cocoa volume needed for the company’s chocolate brands, following promising results in the program’s first six years.

Cocoa Life helps to create a thriving cocoa supply chain by increasing yields on existing farms, building resilience in cocoa-growing communities and preventing deforestation.

Today, 43% of Mondelēz International’s Chocolate brands source cocoa through Cocoa Life, the company says.

“Our Purpose at Mondelēz International is to empower people to snack right and that journey begins with the ingredients we source, including cocoa. As demand for chocolate continues to grow, we are leading the transformation to build a thriving cocoa sector, an ingredient essential to our growth. This is an important milestone for our Cocoa Life program and will ensure more consumers around the world can be confident that the chocolate brands they love are made the right way,” said Chairman and CEO Dirk Van de Put.

When the program launched in 2012, Mondelēz International committed USD400 million to Cocoa Life over 10 years to help build a thriving cocoa supply chain by increasing cocoa productivity and empowering local cocoa farming communities to improve their resilience. Today, the program works directly with cocoa farmers and communities to transform their livelihoods through a focus on skills, education and access to essential resources such as planting materials and crop protection.

Mondelēz International also released Cocoa Life’s 2018 Annual Report, the first-ever large-scale impact report in the cocoa industry, which shows encouraging results from the first six years of the program.