Cocoa’s journey: A more sustainable path from bean to bar.
Key Takeways
- Cargill is reimagining the cocoa supply chain to reduce emissions.
- Innovations like electric barges, biofuel trucks and energy-efficient storage are helping to make Cargill’s cocoa journey more sustainable from origin to final product.
Cocoa beans. Cocoa liquor. Cocoa butter. Cocoa powder. Indulgent chocolate treats.
From harvesting to indulgence, a cocoa bean has many possible paths and varieties. At Cargill, a more sustainable cocoa industry lies in reimagining every link of the supply chain and what the journey from bean to bar can mean.
The goal? To deliver on Cargill’s ambition of building one of the most sustainable food supply chains in the world.
"At Cargill, every cocoa bean tells a story — of innovation, sustainability, and shared responsibility,” says Emiel van Dijk, Cargill senior vice president of cocoa and chocolate in Europe and West Africa. “Our supply chain is designed to help our customers meet their sustainability goals — without compromising on quality or reliability. By using electric barges, energy-efficient storage in Zaandam, the Netherlands, and BIO LNG trucks [that run on liquified biogas] to move semi-finished cocoa products to our chocolate facilities in Belgium, we’re cutting emissions from bean to bar.”
