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Traceability of traders’ indirect supply of cocoa increased significantly in 2023, but still reached 22 percent compared to nine percent in 2022

Most cocoa still untraceable ahead of new EU deforestation law

More than three-quarters of the EU’s cocoa supply is not traceable to the farm where it was produced, with only months to go until the introduction of a new EU law requiring companies to prove that their products are not linked to deforestation. 

The data is part of a new report by the

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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Traceability of traders’ indirect supply of cocoa increased significantly in 2023, but still reached 22 percent compared to nine percent in 2022

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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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