Mars says more than half of its cocoa is traceable to farmer groups as of the end of 2020.

Short is tasked with leading efforts by cocoa and chocolate companies to make the cocoa supply chain sustainable by raising farmer incomes, fighting child labor, and ending deforestation.

Latitude’s dark chocolates contain only two ingredients, cocoa and cane sugar. All of its products and flavors draw on locally-sourced Ugandan ingredients from the milk and coffee to the vanilla.

With the 2020 harvest season, 100 percent of Lindt & Sprüngli’s cocoa beans are traceable back to the farmers and its Farming Program is verified by the Earthworm Foundation.

The World Cocoa Foundation and the Forestry Commission of Ghana are building a partnership to further align the Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ Program and the Cocoa & Forests Initiative to achieve no deforestation commitments.

Mondelēz International, Inc. and Olam Food Ingredients (OFI) are joining forces in Indonesia to create the world’s single largest sustainable commercial cocoa farm.

Olam Food Ingredients has established child labor monitoring across its managed sustainability programs and 100 percent deforestation monitoring across its direct global supply chain.

Ferrero Group achieved its goal of sourcing 100 percent sustainable cocoa at the end of 2020, but the company is continuing to scale its cocoa sustainability efforts under its Ferrero Farming Values Cocoa Programme.

Organizers cited global restrictions on large gatherings and travel as the reason for the postponement.