Twice yearly, around May/June and October, WCF hosts a Partnership Meeting & Roundtable Sessions for the international cocoa community, uniting the private and public sectors in a shared mutual interest in advancing cocoa sustainability. This event brings together WCF members and partners to share ideas on a wide range of cocoa-related issues and to show its support for the development of cocoa-growing communities.
Partnership Meetings are held in various locations around the world, and have included cocoa-growing countries such as Ghana and Ecuador. Guests from the cocoa and chocolate industry, governments, NGOs, academia, and research institutes from the Americas, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia convene to discuss some of the most pressing issues in the cocoa sector. Topics for Partnership Meetings have included innovations in farmer training and services, farmer organizations, education, regional research collaboration, child labor issues, access to finance, and the importance of public-private partnerships.
Past attendees include:
ACDI/VOCA
ADM Cocoa
Africa Agribusiness Magazine
Agro Traders Limited
Alliance of Cocoa Producing Countries (COPAL)
Armajaro Trading Inc
Aspen Institute
Association of Public and Land Grant Universities
aWhere
Barry Callebaut
Berne Declaration
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Biodiversity and Agricultural Commodities Program
Bioversity International
Blommer Chocolate
Bloomberg News
Bourbon Foods USA
Brandt Consolidated Inc.
Bread for the World
CABI
Cacao Industry Development Association of Mindanao, Inc.
Cafe Conseil-Cacao
Camden International Commodities Terminal LLC
Candy Industry Magazine
CAOBISCO
CARANA Corporation
CARE
Cargill
CASALUKER
Catholic Relief Services – CRS
CATIE
CEMOI
Chemonics International Inc.
Chocolats Halba
CHOCOSUISSE
Chorrera N.V.
Cobalt International Services Ltd
Cocoa Association of Nigeria
Cocoa Merchants Ghana Ltd
Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana
Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria
Cocoa Swollen Shoot & Virus Disease Control Unit
CocoaCab
Colcocoa
Compañía Nacional de Chocolates
Confiseur Laederach AG
Conseil du Café-Cacao
Conservation International
Continaf BV
Danish Standards Foundation
Dependable Distribution Services
Digital Green
EcoAgriculture Partners, IFC-BACP
Ecom Agroindustrial Corporation Ltd.
Ecom Trading
Embassy of Côte d’Ivoire
Embassy of the Dominican Republic
Embassy of the Philippines
European Cocoa Association
Fair Labor Association
Fair Trade USA
Fazer Confectionery Ltd.
Federated Commodities Ltd
Ferrero Trading Lux S.A
Fine Chocolate Industry Association
FIRCA
Former Ambassador of the U.S. to the Central African Republic
Former President of the Republic of Ghana
FrieslandCampina
Fuji Oil Co.,Ltd
General Cocoa Company
General Mills, Inc.
Geotraceability
Ghana Cocoa Board
Ghana Education Service
Ghana Embassy
Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Global Business Strategies / ACET
Global Shea Alliance
Governor of West Sulawesi
Grameen Foundation
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
GrowCocoa (Blommer Chocolate Co. & Olam International)
Guittard Chocolate Co.
Haigh’s Chocolates
Hanns R. Neumann Foundation
Heifer International
Helvetas Swiss Inter-cooperation
IADB
Indiana University
Indonesian Coffee and Cocoa Research Institute
Informatix, Inc.
INIAP
Institute for Man and Nature
International Cocoa Initiative
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
Intertek
ISF de Colombia
Kellogg Company
K’Origins
Kraft Foods
Liberia Cocoa Corporation
Lindt & Sprüngli (International) AG
Lutheran World Relief
Manufacturing Confectioner
Mars, Incorporated
Max Havelaar Foundation
Meiji
Mexican Cocoa Foundation
Millennium Challenge Corporation
Minister of Education of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Mitsubishi
Mondelez International
National 4-H Council
National Confectioners Association
New Foresight
Noble Resources
North Carolina State University Dept. of Mol. & Struct. Biochem.
Norwegian Association of Chocolate Manufacturers
Novel Commodities SA
Office of Congresswoman Karen Bass
Office of First Lady of Côte d’Ivoire
Office of Senator Tom Harkin
Office of the Governor of West Sulawesi
Olam
Ondo State Cocoa Development Committee
Oni and Sons Farms
Orange
Oxfam
Pennsylvania State University
Petra Foods Ltd
Philippine Department of Agriculture – Bureau of Agricultural Research
Port of Amsterdam
Pronatec ag
Rabobank Foundation
Rainforest Alliance
Randlyn Holdings Inc.
Republic of Côte d’Ivoire
Rizek Cacao
Royal Duyvis Wiener B.V.
Royal Tropical Institute
Royce’ Confectionary Co., Ltd
Save the Children
Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker
SECO
Seedtime and Harvest Agrochemicals
Sitos Commodities (Amsterdam) B.V.
SOCODEVI
SOLIDARIDAD
Solidaridad W/Africa
Source Trust
Stanford University
Starbucks
Sucres et Denrées
Sustainability Consultant
Sustainable Food Lab
Sustainable Harvest
Swisscontact
TCHO
TechnoServe
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Hershey Company
The Wall Street Journal
The WiderNet Project
The World Bank
Theobroma USA
Thomson Reuters
Together for Girls
Toms Confectionery Group
Toshoku America, Inc. (Cargill Company)
Transmar Commodity Group
Tropical Farms Ltd / The Agriterra Group
USAID
USDA-ARS
U.S. Department of Labor
U.S. Global Leadership Coalition
U.S.-Angola Chamber of Commerce
University of the Philippines Los Banos
United Biscuits
United Nations Development Programme
University of the West Indies / Cocoa Research Unit
US Global Business Group
UTZ Certified
West Sulawesi Cocoa Community
Winrock International
World Education, Inc.
YILDIZ HOLDING
York Trade Corporation