Cargill Cocoa Promise

We are working to promote a more sustainable cocoa supply chain for generations to come

The Cargill Cocoa Promise is our sustainability program to help farmers and their communities achieve better incomes and livelihoods while growing cocoa more sustainably.

We established the Cargill Cocoa Promise program in 2012 as a formal, future-looking, and action-oriented framework for our global sustainability activities, building on over 10 years of experience in the field with farmers and farmer organizations. The program is implemented in Brazil, Côte d’Ivoire, Ecuador, Ghana, and Indonesia.

Our ambition is to increase transparency in the global cocoa supply chain, to help strengthen the socioeconomic resilience of cocoa farmers and their communities, and to deliver a more sustainable supply of cocoa and chocolate products from bean to end-product.

We are making progress on this ambition by leveraging our global reach and experience, and by working together with our vast network of partner organizations and stakeholders. These include 200 local farmer organizations as well as NGOs, governments, and industry partners.

Cargill Promise Cocoa™

Promise Cocoa is Cargill’s premium sustainability product offering and aligns with industry sustainability ambitions. Promise Cocoa beans are sourced directly from farmers and farmer organizations who have been verified to be compliant with the Cargill Cocoa Promise sustainability program. Promise Cocoa can either be sourced with Rainforest Alliance certification, Fairtrade certification, or Promise Cocoa Verified.

Promise Cocoa Verified

Promise Cocoa Verified is one type of certification within the broader Promise Cocoa product portfolio. It is Cargill’s independent verification scheme. It outlines the sustainability requirements that cocoa farmers and supply chain actors – up to the customers – have to meet. It is externally verified through third-party audits to meet Cargill’s cocoa sustainability requirements. Sustainability requirements include that farmers have all their cocoa plots polygon-mapped, none of their cocoa plots have signs of deforestation, and none of their cocoa plots are located in a protected area.