Barry Callebaut is ramping initiatives to make effective traceability across global value chains and sustainable chocolate the norm. The Swiss manufacturer is partnering with key stakeholders as it scales efforts toward achieving full transparency and traceability of cocoa using technologies such as polygon mapping and geo-localization.
Traceability to farm level, knowing where the cocoa we source is grown, is crucial in addressing structural and sustainability issues in the cocoa supply chain.
Accurate insights into cocoa sourcing, gathered through polygon mapping and geo-localization based on satellite images, are imperative for Barry Callebaut as it plans to eliminate deforestation from the cocoa supply chain.
According to the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF), around half of the world cocoa bean supply is sourced indirectly by chocolate companies from independent exporters and traders, primarily due to the regulatory and licensing requirements in origin countries.
