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Yesterday, we launched our sharpened plan to make sustainable chocolate the norm, Forever Chocolate. Yesterday’s publication concludes a one-year review and evaluation during which we have not only sharpened our plan, but also added fresh ambition to extend our impact beyond 2025.

Discover the key to a transformative approach to cocoa farming in West Africa. Read Barry Callebaut's White Paper, highlighting findings from six years of collaboration with IDH, Rainforest Alliance and Agri-Logic. Learn how yield, farm size, and price can drive poverty reduction.

Barry Callebaut is committed to sustainability and reducing its environmental footprint. In the Americas, we have implemented various sustainable projects to become a leader in sustainability in the chocolate and cocoa industry.

Barry Callebaut is proud to be one of the founding companies of the Sustainable Coconut Partnership launched in April 2023 that drives industry-wide transformation.

Barry Callebaut signed an agroforestry agreement with Nestlé. The joint project is aligned with the Nestlé Cocoa Plan, Net Zero Roadmap and the joint climate-smart cocoa ambition to remove up to 1.3 million tons of CO2e.

Digital payments are increasingly accepted in cocoa-growing origins. At Barry Callebaut, we scale our digital premium payment solutions across West Africa, Indonesia and South America.

CDP, the gold standard for environmental reporting, has once again recognized Barry Callebaut for leadership in corporate transparency and performance on forests. Out of over 15,000 companies which were scored in 2022, Barry Callebaut is one of 24 high-performing companies, securing a place on CDP’s prestigious ‘Forests A List’.

Our Forever Chocolate Progress Report 2021/22 highlights our achievements toward making sustainable chocolate the norm. One out of two of our products sold contains sustainable chocolate.

Barry Callebaut is positioned as #1 out of 579 companies in the ‘Food Product’ category by Sustainalytics. This is the fourth consecutive year that Barry Callebaut has been recognized as an industry leader in the management of the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risks in our supply chain.

Barry Callebaut explores collaborative ways to drive sustainability commitments such as effective traceability across the global value chains.

Pre-harvest activities, in particular, are critical to boost productivity. This year, Barry Callebaut is supporting 10,000 farmers in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana with pre-harvest interventions by providing external labor and subsidized soil inputs. In the coming crop season, we aim to scale our new approach deploying large-scale labor teams to reach more farmers in our supply chain.

A joint cocoa diversification project with Prova improves vanilla farmer livelihoods in Madagascar – and supplies Barry Callebaut customers with sustainable vanilla.