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.

Olam Cocoa has launched the Cocoa Compass program, designed to support the creation of an environmentally positive, professionalized and quality focused cocoa supply chain.

There is still much work to be done in the industry when it comes to diversity, but Editor Crystal Lindell is happy to see that there is progress being made.

And although Atkins does quote several analysts and trots out dire statistics to make his case, this call to alarm could be called a bit of a stretch, somewhat akin to the sensational headlines last year indicating a looming chocolate shortage.