THE COCOA SNAPSHOT
22/23 MID-YEAR REVIEW

What is Cocoa Horizons?
An impact driven program with the vision to drive cocoa
farmer prosperity by creating self-sustaining communities
that protect nature and children.
Cocoa Horizons is:
A non-profit organisation
Third party verified
Highly transparent on income and methodology
Addressing cocoa challenges and beyond
Focusing on impact

The program is active in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana,Cameroon, Nigeria, Brazil, Ecuador and Indonesia.

By partnering with the Cocoa Horizons Foundation, you support
the Sustainable Development Goals:
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment

2022/23 MID YEAR HIGHLIGHTS
253,193

16%registered farmersof women

121,972

tons of Horizons cocoa
sold in bean equivalent+9% vs prior year

Prospering
Farmers

Community &Child Protection

Thriving
Nature76,253

178

133,907

farmers received a
Farm Business Plan
+9% vs prior year

farmer groups withsystems in place forchild labor monitoring+4% vs prior year

farmers delivering cocoawith all plots mapped+40% vs prior year

Deployment of labor teams to
support farmers increasing
their yields withpre-harvest work.

Enhanced focus on community
centric approach in addition toindividual approach to enable
lasting change on child protection.

Acceleration of agroforestry tohelp farmers improve cocoa yield,
diversify their income while
capturing carbon and enhancing
biodiversity.

PROSPERING FARMERSTRACEABILITY

196,449 farmers delivering Horizons cocoa, +41% vs prior year.

68% of farmers who
delivered cocoa with fulldata, +11pp vs prior year.

116,327 in Côte d’Ivoire

1,212 in Brazil

58,951 in Ghana

3,028 in Indonesia

12,927 in Cameroon

1,166 in Ecuador

2,838 in Nigeria

Census and mapping are
actually ongoing with ourimplementing partners toreach more farmers.

The majority of Horizons cocoa follows the mass balance principle : it is traced
from farmer to the first program implementer’s warehouse. Horizons cocoa
is also available as fully segregated cocoa mass: Cocoa Horizons Inside.

Digital payments are deployed to secure faster and more
efficient premium payments to farmers.
CLARISSE, cocoa farmer from Cameroon“Digitalization helped me receive my premium on time, spend less ontransportation as I can receive my full premium from the comfort ofmy home, my money is more secured in my phone as compared tomoving around with cash collected from the suppliers warehouse,
withdrawal charges are also included in the premium amountpermitting me to receive my full premium."

15,162 farmers
graduated this year
allowing them tomove to individual
coaching and accessto Farm Services.

COCOA HORIZONSACADEMY
Farmer graduation allows the evaluation offarmer knowledge, training outcomes and gaps
to refocus resources from Farmer Field schools
to coaching.
Good Agricultural Practices, Social andEnvironmental aspects are covered in thegraduation test.
In total, 227,212 farmers are graduated.

FARM SERVICES
76,253 farmers had access to a Farm
Business Plan, +9% vs prior year.
The Farm Business Plan is the cornerstone of theprocess to improve the livelihoods of farmers andtheir communities.
5,098 farmers received productivity packages.

56,826 cocoa seedlings distributed, +46%vs prior year.
Distributing planting materials is an essential
element of our approach. It allows farm rejuvenation
leading to higher yield and income.
Addressing the poverty challenge goes also withsupporting farmers securing their land rights tofacilitate long term investment. Based on the firstprojects launched in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, we areconsolidating learnings to scale up the approach.

INNOVATIVE
PRE-HARVEST APPROACH
6,000 farmers in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana
benefiting from pre-harvest labor.
Farmers spend 70% of their time in post-harvest
activities and only 30% in pre-harvest, with little tono investment. Pre-harvest investment is criticalto improve productivity. Therefore, we started
supporting farmers with pre-harvest labor.

COMMUNITY& CHILD PROTECTION
CHILD PROTECTION: RISK BASED APPROACH
178 farmer groups with systems in place for child labormonitoring.
We apply a risk based approach: cocoa farming communities arecategorized as low, medium or high risk based on socio-economic
census data and an algorithm (leveraging knowledge from CLMRS
activities) to determine priority of implementation. Theinterventions are then planned and prioritized in accordance withthe risk identified and the needs of the child and community.
With this approach, the resources are deployed in the mostefficient way in order to protect children.
19,502 households surveyed;
31,529 children surveyed identifying 9,888 cases. This means
69% of children interviewed were not involved in Child Labor.
28,450 cases identified from prior years are under remediation.

Remediation activities like school kit distribution andsensitization help contribute to child protection.
CAROLE, Child protection coordinator in Côte d'Ivoire"There was a girl in the East region who wasn’t going to school. When
we found out about her, we got her enrolled in the Bridging Class
Program and she did so well that we quickly got her in the traditional
school system. She passed her exam as the best student. That is one of
our amazing success stories.”

COMMUNITY CENTRIC APPROACH
Community Action Plans, VSLAs,
Income Generating Activities andSensitization are enablers to create
empowered communities to further
sustain the remediation, prevent
incidents and make lasting change inaddition to the individual approach.

WOMEN EMPOWERMENTIn Cameroon, farming
communities are sensitized via
radio programs.
In Côte d’Ivoire, the Cocoa
Horizons truck is visiting
communities for sensitization
activities and medical visitspartnering with local healthauthorities.

375 VSLAs established and consolidated across Côte
d'Ivoire, Ghana and Indonesia this year. Supporting
VSLAs already in place to pursue their activities.
Women empowerment has a positive impact on preventing
child labor and improving household income. This year
39,938 women are registered Cocoa Horizons farmers.
The creation and strengthening of the Village Savings andLoan Associations (VSLAs) helps, among other things, topromote a women's empowerment approach, build selfconfidence and offer financing solutions for members.
58% of the VSLA members are women.

THRIVING NATUREFOREST PROTECTION, RESTORATION, SENSITIZATION
1.1 million shade trees are currently
under production and expected tobe distributed in the next months.

In addition to farm mapping to ensure the cocoa is not
coming from protected areas, multiple activities areimplemented with the cocoa farming communities:
environmental protection sensitization, agroforestry andforest restoration.
For example, the Agbo project in Côte d’Ivoire, started in2021, already contributed to the restoration of 300 ha offorest.

KOFI, cocoa farmer from Ghana

MIRANDA“It is important to protect the forest and plantshade trees so that the rainfall is consistent.
Nowadays, we notice sometimes, it doesn’train when it should. One important thing I likefrom shade trees is that when you return fromthe farm on a hot afternoon, you can just sit
under a tree and relax!"

ROBUST AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMSIn our agroforestry approach, farmers are supportedwith a clear diagnosis of their farm, a strong coaching
and receive payments for ecosystem services as anincentive to reach a high survival rate.
Implementing intense agroforestry systems enables farmers topromote biodiversity, improve cocoa yield, reduce pest anddiseases, provide an additional source of income and sequester
carbon. This year 12,000 hectares are being implemented.

All these activities help us achievecarbon reductions and removals.

OUTLOOK
We will continue to deploy our pre-harvest approach, secure land
documentation and extend agroforestry systems which will improve
the overall productivity and income of the farmers.
The Foundation's ambition will remain on:
Achieving 100% full data to promote higher efficiency andexecution of activities;
Strengthening human rights due diligence across countries;
Focusing on a strong community-centric approach to address thesystemic issue of child labor;
Deploying labor teams to help farmers increase yields and income;Accelerating on agroforestry to advance towards our carbon
reduction goals aligned with the Science-Based Targets Initiative;
Expandingtheprogram

tothirdstrengthening in existing countries.

LOOKING
BEYOND 2025
Since 2015, we have been scaling impact anddriving change with cocoa farming communities
across7countries

answeringthegrowing

demand for sustainable cocoa.
Our approach is to pilot, assess, adapt and rollout at scale to create meaningful impact. Overthe past years, we have been collecting data andlearnings on what works and what should beimproved.
The sustainability landscape has evolved with thedevelopment of an enabling policy environment
and increased market expectations.
All of these give us the opportunity to sharpen
our commitments and revise our approach tocreate more impact and look beyond 2025.
Very soon, we will communicate our refreshedcommitments

andapproach

tobuild

self-sustaining farming communities that protect
nature, children and human rights.

Disclaimer related to the UN SDGs:
The content of this publication has not been approved by theUnited Nations and does not reflect the views of the United
Nations or its officials or Member States.

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