Nestlé Cocoa Plan

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The Nestlé Cocoa Plan was initiated in 2009 and has positively impacted over 150,000 cocoa-farming families to date. The plan is founded on three key principles:

Better farming, aiming to improve livelihoods in communities.
Better lives, aiming to improve social conditions for families.
And Better cocoa, aiming to improve product sustainability.

Our Cocoa Partner Organisations

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We collaborate closely with partner organisations that bring expertise to measure and evaluate the impact of the activities we implement across key areas such as forest protection and restoration, the livelihoods of cocoa-farming families, community development, and access to education.

Together, our aim is to build a brighter future for cocoa-farming families and ensure the sustainable production of quality cocoa. Through this collaboration, we are able to assess and enhance the effectiveness of our initiatives, driving positive change and sustainable development in these vital areas. Read more.

Better Farming

Our focus is on equipping cocoa farmers with training and resources to boost their yields and improve the quality of their produce. These efforts promote positive agricultural practices and create diversified income sources.

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Better Lives

We are dedicated to empowering women, which in turn leads to thriving communities. Our work aims to enhance gender equality and household incomes by incentivising greater access to education. This also serves to mitigate the risks of child labour.

Better Cocoa

Our commitment involves making the cocoa supply chain more transparent and traceable, with a specific focus on transitioning towards cocoa forest-positive actions.

Nestlé Cocoa Plan approach Download the Nestlé Cocoa Plan Report

The Income Accelerator Program

As part of an innovative family-centred initiative, the income accelerator programme is an innovative family-centred initiative that offers a unique approach to help farmers and their families steadily and sustainably build economic stability. Building on the long standing work of the Nestle Cocoa Plan, the programme enables, incentivises, and ultimately rewards practices that enhance crop productivity and secure additional sources of income for the farmers and their families. These efforts are aimed at closing the gap to living income and protecting children. The programme focuses on closing the living income gap and reducing child labour risks by encouraging behavioural changes and rewarding positive practices within the home and on the farm. It also rewards cocoa-farming families for practices that benefit the environment and the local community. Learn more

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households covered by our Child Labor Monitoring and Remediation Systems (CLMRS) to prevent and address child labour risks

of cocoa sourced through the Nestlé Cocoa Plan

Our Challenges and Social Impacts of our Cocoa Production

We want to provide transparency on the impact we make and the challenges we face, allowing us to learn and improve along the way. These results delivered in our sustainable cocoa journey would not be possible without the support of our partners, suppliers and, our teams on the field and of course the engagement of the cocoa-farming families we work with.

Forest Positive Cocoa

Improving Cocoa Farmers' Livelihoods

More Trees Planted

We're training cocoa farmers to prune their trees and plant a wider variety of native species.

More Sustainably Grown Cocoa

We're incentivising good practices in cocoa farming communities paid directly into the families' pockets.

Helping kids into schools

We're helping cocoa-farming families send their children to school, and keep them learning.

More money for cocoa farming families

We help farmers implement sustainable agricultural practices, improve crop productivity, and the creation of diversified income sources.

More power for women

We're helping women gain more control over their money, families and communities. And through this, addressing wider gender inequality in Côte d'Ivoire. Read more