Projects by Area of Action

Cocoa Quality Improvement

• Market study on the potential cocoa and chocolate consumption in the Russian Federation
  

• Analysis of the value chain in cocoa producing countries.
  

Fine/Flavour Cocoa

• Project to establish the physical, chemical and organoleptic parameters to differentiate between fine or flavour and bulk cocoa.
  

Cocoa Marketing and Trade

• Improvement of cocoa marketing and trade in liberalizing cocoa producing countries.
  

Price Risk Management

• Price-risk management for cocoa farmers
  

Cocoa Consumption

• Feasibility study on the generic promotion of cocoa consumption in the Russian Federation.
  

• Generic Promotion of cocoa consumption in Japan
  

By-products

• Pilot plants to process cocoa by-products in Ghana.
  

Pest & Diseases

• The use of molecular biology techniques in a search for varieties resistant to Witches’ Broom disease of cocoa.
  

• Preventing and managing the global spread of cocoa pests and pathogens: Lessons from witches' broom disease of cocoa.
  

Cocoa Productivity Improvement

• Cocoa germplasm utilization and conservation: a global approach.
  

• Cocoa productivity and quality improvement: a participatory approach
  

Total Quality

• Supply chain management for total quality cocoa: pilot phase.
  

Sustainable Cocoa Production

• Development of sustainable cocoa agro-forestry systems through multiple land use: the cacau cabruca model.