THE COCOA SNAPSHOT
17/18 YEAR REVIEW

Bringing you news and updates about the Cocoa Horizons Program from around the world.

The Cocoa Horizons Foundation’s mission is to improve the livelihoods of cocoa farmers andtheir communities through the promotion of sustainable, entrepreneurial farming, improved
productivity and community development.
This snapshot includes third party verified end-of-year* updates for three of our partnercountries - Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Cameroon.
*Fiscal year ending 31st August 2018SCALING IMPACT AND DRIVING CHANGE THROUGHPRODUCTIVITY AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIESTHE COCOA HORIZONSPROGRAM COVERS:

Farmer Group and Group Member requirements;
Traceability of cocoa from farmer to Barry Callebaut buying site;
Farmer Group and Farmer Training;
Activities that target the cocoa productivityand production;
Activities that target community development; andTransparency of premium flows.

FARMER GROUP AND GROUPMEMBER REQUIREMENTS:
100% of farmer groups respect and sign:

FARMER GROUPS
Supplier Code
The Cocoa Horizons
Convention
The Child Labour Charter

92 farmer groups (19 new this year) delivered
Horizons cocoa, a 12% increase from previous year.
Of the 93,370 Cocoa Horizons registered farmers,
74,521 (up 23% from 16/17) actively delivered
Horizons cocoa this year:
25,413 in Côte d'Ivoire
45,519 in Ghana
3,589 in Cameroon

A Declaration that cocoa isnot and will not be sourced
from protected forests

72,088 MT of Horizons cocoa beans delivered.

TRACEABILITY
OF COCOA:

33,083 MT in Côte d'Ivoire
33,270 MT in Ghana
5,735 MT in Cameroon
All Horizons cocoa is traced from farmer tofirst Barry Callebaut buying sites. From there,
it is traced following mass balance principles.

FARMER GROUP AND
FARMER TRAINING:

The Cocoa Horizons training curriculum was expanded tobetter achieve productivity impacts, including two newmodules on entrepreneurship and adult education.
All farmer groups and farmer trainers have been trained
85,652 farmers trained, up 46% from the 16/17 season
38,171 in Côte d'Ivoire
45,728 in Ghana
1,753 in Cameroon*
141 Farmer Trainers were accredited, bringing total to 375
90 in Côte d'Ivoire
23 in Ghana
28 in Cameroon

PRODUCTIVITY

33,695 farmers in Côte d'Ivoire received at least one productivity
intervention. A sample of these farmers indicate that:61% have access to planting material;

3,447 farmer group members had access to productivity packages(coaching, inputs such as tools and seedlings, or finance), up 241%from the 16/17 season:
2,185 in Côte d'Ivoire
1,262 in Ghana
1,459,966 cocoa seedlings distributed in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana,up 269% from the 16/17 season.
591 community professionals accredited in a specialty (pruners,nurserists, sprayers).
152 Demonstration Plots in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, up from 42 in
the 16/17 season.
160ha replanted with cocoa and diverse shade trees, bringing
total to 336 ha replanted.
55,561 farms mapped, 38% of total registered members of Cocoa
Horizons have at least one farm mapped.
372,468 shade trees distributed in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, up
5,221% from the 16/17 season.

39% have access to fertilizer;
Less than 1% have applied soil fertility management;
12% of targeted farmers rehabilitating their cocoa farms
to a minimum degree. 3% of their cocoa farms using
improved planting materials; and8% of targeted farmers applying pruning and 3 ormore GAPs.

40,793 farmers in Ghana received at least one productivity
intervention. A sample of these farmers indicate that:
5% have access to planting material;
22% have access to fertilizer;
14% have applied soil fertility management;
2% have rehabilitated at least 3% of their cocoa farms using
improved planting materials; and
29% of targeted farmers applying pruning and 3 or more GAPs.

COMMUNITY:

20,748 community members sensitized on child labor in Côte d'Ivoire,up 901% from the 16/17 season.
65 communities in Côte d'Ivoire reached by the Cocoa Horizons truck.

Child Labor Monitoring and Remediation
System (CLMRS) - Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana
13,256 farmers and household members participated in CLMRS
interviews, a significant increase from 494 in the prior year.
12,513 farmers received a field visit by CLMRS trained staff.
3,096 cases of children involved in child labor were identified.

Education Activities
Côte d'Ivoire
1 school with 6 classrooms completed*
2 boreholes installed*
600 school kits distributed
350 birth certificates paid forGhana
17 boreholes installed* Special projects completed with customers

Women’s Empowerment
18,541 women are Cocoa Horizons registered farmers,
approximately 20% of total; this is up 61% from the 16/17 season
3,543 in Côte d'Ivoire
14,397 in Ghana
601 in Cameroon
208 women are in governance positions within Cocoa
Horizons Farmer Groups, up 58%
90 in Côte d'Ivoire
107 in Ghana
11 in Cameroon
306 women participated in agroforestry training in the 17/18
season, bringing cumulative total to 734 women
46 women became agroforestry trainers

COCOA HORIZONSPREMIUM DISTRIBUTION:Cocoa Horizons Program Income
Horizons Program contributions(in CHF)

2017/2018

10,538,368

Cocoa Horizons Program expenses

Farmer and farmer organization premium

2,687,050

Productivity expense

3,264,170

Community expense

2,114,846

Administrative expense

1,497,938

The above is an extract from the Foundation’s annual regulatory return. The Foundation’s
financial audit is performed by PricewaterhouseCoopers AG, Switzerland.

CÔTE D’IVOIRE, GHANA AND CAMEROON

100% of the farmers who delivered Horizons cocoa havereceived the Cocoa Horizons Premium

All of the information contained above was verified by PwC. Theperformance indicators in this Snapshot (except those marked with a *)represent extracts from the Cocoa Horizons Foundation Update Reportfor the year ended 31 August 2018, for which PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP (PwC) were appointed to provide independent assurance. PwC
performed an assurance engagement in accordance with theInternational Standard on Assurance Engagements 3000 (Revised), thescope of which was to provide limited assurance over the KPIs contained
within the Update Report.
The Update Report, and PwC's Limited Assurance Report, can be foundat https://www.cocoahorizons.org/reports.

TESTIMONIALSCAMEROONMADAME EMBOLO
JAMAL PASCAL
The technical support from the trainers from the Cocoa
Horizons Program helps us with everything we do in
the fields. In the farmer school we learn a lot, likemastering good agricultural practices, pruning, how totreat our fields and how to protect the environment.
Our parents and grandparents used to grow cacao and I
belong to the third generation. I believe that there is a
future in cocoa. If there was no future, we wouldn’t bedoing it. Moreover, cacao sustains us, enables us tosend our children to school, and to get healthcare.

Under Cocoa Horizons we were trained on how to prune cacao
trees, how to plant new trees and how to look after the trees
properly. Before that, I used to spend a lot on treatment
products. Now they showed me how to give cacao trees more
space. Before, there was too much shade. We didn’t remove
the branches. And now that they taught me how to remove
them and how to bring light in the field, they produce a lot. I
have a great yield.

CÔTE D'IVOIREAMAL KADU ASSEIN
In the Cocoa Horizons Program they taught us good farming
practices, and we saw our yields increase. Thanks to theprogram our harvest is better and we get more money at theend of the year, which enables us to put our children in school.
At home too, we can eat, get healthcare and so forth. What
we have been taught has touched us deeply.