The 2024 World Cocoa Foundation Partnership Meeting, which will take place in Amsterdam on 6-7 February, is the leading global event on cocoa sector sustainability. More than 300 people have already registered for this major event, which includes some of the sector’s biggest cocoa farmer cooperatives, cocoa processors, cocoa and chocolate businesses and NGOs who will be gathering to discuss key topics for the cocoa sector.

For the first time ever, the cocoa conference starts with a farmer panel and cocoa farmers will be invited to voice their opinions on themes such as agroforestry, sustainability ambitions of their respective countries, forest conservation and restoration, EUDR and income diversification.

With representatives from cocoa-growing countries and cocoa farming communities, the programme includes government representatives from Côte d’Ivoire, and Ghana, as well as government representatives from the European Union and the United States. Themes being covered range from EUDR, traceability to farmer incomes and global strategies for forest restoration and conservation.  

This year, World Cocoa Foundation is teaming up with CHOCOA, the foremost industry conference for better chocolate, to create a weeklong Amsterdam Cocoa Week with all events taking place at the Beurs van Berlage February 5-11, 2024. As the largest cocoa port in the world, Amsterdam is the hub connecting producers and consumers. It also serves as a centre for innovative thinking on sustainability in the cocoa supply chain.

Chris Vincent, President of World Cocoa Foundation says “Combining our World Cocoa Foundation Partnership Meeting and CHOCOA will propel us into 2024 in exciting fashion. It will allow all of us globally across the sector to align and find new ways forward as we transition toward the shared objective of truly sustainable cocoa.” 

The Partnership Meeting event has strong sponsorship from WCF company members with MARS as Platinum sponsor and Cargill as Gold. Silver sponsors are Barry Callebaut, Cordillera, Lindt & Sprüngli, Mondelēz International, and Nestlé.

The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) is an international membership organisation representing the global cocoa and chocolate sectors. Its members include farmer cooperatives, cocoa processors, chocolate manufacturers, supply chain companies, and other companies worldwide. 

WCF’s vision is to be a catalyst for a thriving and equitable cocoa sector that is collaborating to improve farmer income, reverse deforestation, and combat child labour. WCF’s unique position at the centre of the cocoa and chocolate sector enables it to create strategic relationships and collaborative programmes with cocoa farming communities, governments, and civil society, which deliver transformative impact and systemic reform.