Exclusive video: Fairtrade Foundation World Confectionery Conference preview
Smallholder farmers in West Africa in key cocoa chains stand to lose out from major proposed EU Commission changes to corporate due diligence requirements. (pic, Ben Rotthoff, Koa)
With our World Confectionery Conference just around the corner, we offer an exclusive sneak preview of Fairtrade Foundation’s plans for its keynote presentation at this year’s event in Harrogate Yorkshire, UK.
Editor Neill Barston speaks to Surmaya Talyarkhan (watch the video below) on the organisation’s ongoing work within West Africa and around the world within cocoa supply chains, which remain vitally important to the global confectionery market, and continue to face a raft of issues, from child labour and deforestation, through to the ongoing quest for the sector to deliver a living income to agricultural workers.
