COCO LIFE COMPANY LIMITED

Cocoa Life 2023 Cocoa & Forests Initiative Progress Report

Progress in a changing cocoa landscape

MDLZ 2023 Snacking Made Right Report

An update on Cocoa Life’s progress as we strive to support the people and the landscapes where cocoa grows

Mondelēz International signs Memorandum of Understanding with Côte d’Ivoire’s Ministry of Women, Family, and Children

Strengthening Cocoa Life efforts to help protect children in cocoa communities

Four Years On: Our Cocoa & Forests Initiative Progress and Action Plans

Laying the foundations for a forest positive future for the people and landscapes where cocoa grows

MDLZ 2022 Snacking Made Right Report

An update on Cocoa Life’s progress for the people

and the landscapes where cocoa grows

How Cocoa Life continues to help combat child labor by enhancing child protection systems and improving access to quality education in Cocoa Life communities

Mondelēz International announces the next phase of Cocoa Life

by helping to lift people and shape landscapes

Cocoa farmers and their communities face several complex challenges, including:

Productivity: limited knowledge of farming techniques, limited access to planting materials, pests and disease

Environmental: climate change, deforestation, aging trees, unfertile soil

Social: lack of access to quality education, risk of child labor, gender inequality, fewer leadership roles for women

Financial: risk of poverty, lack of access to finance

Cocoa Life works with partners to help address those challenges by helping to lift the people and protect the landscapes where cocoa grows.

Cocoa Life is Mondelēz International’s global cocoa sustainability program.

As one of the world’s leading snacking companies, it is a major priority to make our most important ingredients, such as cocoa, right. Launched in 2012, Cocoa Life is a US$1 billion investment by Mondelēz International through to 2030 to help make cocoa sourcing more sustainable in key cocoa-producing countries.

Cocoa Life helps make cocoa right. It helps lift the people and protect the landscapes, with the aim of bringing dynamic change to communities and forests where the cocoa bean grows before it becomes the chocolate for the snacks the world loves.

“With our US$1 billion total investment between 2012 and 2030, we are in a unique position to apply 10 years of progress and learnings. Cocoa Life believes in smart innovation and collaboration for transformational impact. With our partners, we support farmers, communities and their landscapes through actions like Targeted Good Agricultural Practices, Payment for Environmental Services and Community Action Plans."

Cedric van Cutsem, Senior Director Cocoa Life, Mondelēz International

By 2025, we aim for 100% of cocoa volumes for Mondelēz International chocolate brands to be sourced, on a mass balance approach, through Cocoa Life¹. We also have a goal to further increase our cocoa volume scale and reach around 300,000 farmers by 2030.

“Cocoa Life is on a long-term journey to help create a vibrant, strong cocoa supply chain while growing opportunities to help transform the livelihoods of farmers and their communities. We believe that empowered, thriving cocoa communities are the essential foundation for more sustainable cocoa."

Cathy Pieters, VP Sustainable Ingredients & Cocoa Life, Mondelēz International

Our purpose is to help make cocoa right.

Moving cocoa forward faster by helping lift the people and protect the landscapes where cocoa grows.

Through our integrated approach, we aim to make cocoa sourcing more sustainable.
Cocoa Life takes action for people and landscapes by:

1. Helping to grow more profitable cocoa businesses
for communities to help increase the number of farming households reaching a living income.

2. Helping to lift cocoa communities
to help enhance child protection systems and improve access to quality education in Cocoa Life communities.

3. Helping to protect and restore forests
to seek no deforestation on Cocoa Life farms.

A more sustainable cocoa supply begins with empowered cocoa farming households

Profitable farming businesses lead to financial resilience

The work of children is education and play

When women rise, cocoa thrives

Conserving the land and forests for today and for tomorrow

Integrity and accountability are as important as sun and water

Partnership is the key to lasting change

Choosing the Cocoa Life logo means everyone can love our chocolate as much as we do, because we support making cocoa the right way.

Our brands aim to support the cocoa farming communities that make possible the chocolate we all love.

10 Stories for 10 Years of Moving Cocoa Forward Together

MDLZ 2022 Snacking Made Right Report

Cedric van Cutsem, Senior Director Cocoa Life, Mondelēz International - 05/16/23

This page was updated in June 2024.