Though Africa supplies 70 percent of the world’s cocoa, the “statistical equivalent of 0 percent” of the world’s chocolate is produced there, says Tim McCollum, founder of Beyond Good. He's hoping to change that.

Beyond Good, formerly Madécasse, is celebrating its one-year anniversary operating in Madagascar, where it has hired 42 full-time employees and produced one million chocolate bars at a state-of-the-art factory there.

Vanilla flavor and extract supplier Nielsen-Massey is hopeful the 2020 vanilla crop will be more bountiful than last year’s yield.

Synergy Flavors, Inc. is constructing two new primary schools in Antsirabe Nord and Menagisa, Madagascar, which join four previously built facilities funded by the company in partnership with the Madagascar Development Fund.