The Cargill Cocoa Promise
We are committed to ensure a thriving and sustainable cocoa sector for generations to come
The Cargill Cocoa Promise is our commitment to farmers and their communities, enabling them to achieve better incomes and living standards while growing cocoa sustainably.
Our ambition is to accelerate progress towards a transparent global cocoa supply chain, to enable cocoa farmers and their communities to strengthen their socioeconomic resilience, and to deliver a sustainable supply of cocoa and chocolate products from bean to end-product.
We will achieve 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.
The evolution of the Cargill Cocoa Promise
We established the Cargill Cocoa Promise in 2012 as a formal, future-looking and action-oriented framework for our global sustainability activities, building on 10 years of experience in the field with farmers and farmer organizations.
In 2017, we introduced our Sustainability Goals, building on the impact of the Cargill Cocoa Promise while aligning our ambitions with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This framework has allowed us to broaden our scope to encompass our indirect cocoa supply chain and how we source other ingredients used to produce chocolate.
To learn more about our five sustainability goals, our targets, and our impact, click here.
See the Cargill Cocoa Promise in action
See how we’re already making a concrete impact in our five origin countries.
Affordable Truck Finance
Our award-winning “Doni Doni” initiative bridges the needs of farmers and our customers’ sustainability goals
Coop Academy
Increasing professionalism and efficiency in cocoa farming and bringing better results to farmers
Women in Cocoa Farming
Working with partners to help understand and overcome barriers for women cocoa farmers
Tackling Child Labor
Reducing child labor in West Africa is a critical priority for us, and an important issue for both consumers and customers. We are working with the industry to eradicate child labor in cocoa farming.
Identifying child labor
We have established an industry-leading monitoring system to identify and protect children in Cargill’s cocoa supply chain.
Village Savings and Loan Associations
Empowering women in cocoa-growing communities by providing access to finance
Seedling Program
Improving farm productivity through better quality and more resilient seedlings
Training Coaches
Improving farmer livelihoods through one-to-one coaching
Improving nutrition
Helping to improve livelihoods through better nutritional standards
Brazil Smallholdings
Improving livelihoods while supporting the environment
Crop Protection
Helping farmers achieve higher revenues and better yields
Cacao Allyie
Supporting long-term farm productivity, not just increased yields
Mobile banking in Côte d’Ivoire
We work to foster financial inclusion and transparency
Traceability through mobile banking
Creating the first fully traceable cocoa supply chain in Ghana