Signatories of the Dutch Initiative on Sustainable Cocoa (DISCO) are jointly responsible for reaching the shared vision for a sustainable cocoa sector.
The vision is that in cocoa-production regions important to the Dutch cocoa industry the following will be achieved:
- Farming families with cocoa as their main livelihood activity will be enabled to earn a living income by 2030;
- Cocoa-related deforestation and forest degradation in producing regions where the Dutch cocoa industry and their trade partners are sourcing from will have ended in their supply chains by 2025;
- Effective measures and necessary actions contributing to ending all forms of child labor by 2025 are taken.
DISCO acknowledges the complexity of the root causes behind the critical social, economic, and environmental sustainability issues in the cocoa sector. By working in partnership DISCO signatories are better able to coordinate and initiate efforts and interventions with stakeholders in the cocoa sector outside the Netherlands. This should lead to more efficiency and effectiveness in the national and international efforts aimed at making the cocoa sector more sustainable. In partnership, we can achieve more than the sum of our individual efforts.
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Organizations that have joined DISCO
| Traders and processors | Barry Callebaut |
| Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate | |
| Export Trading Group (ETG) | |
| JS Cocoa | |
| Olam Food Ingredients (ofi) | |
| Manufacturers and brands | Friesland Campina |
| MARS Netherlands | |
| Mondeléz | |
| Nestlé Netherlands | |
| Tony’s Chocolonely | |
| Vereniging voor de Bakkerij- en Zoetwarenindustrie (VBZ)* | |
| Retail | Albert Heijn |
| Jumbo | |
| Superunie | |
| Government | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands |
| Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of The Netherlands | |
| RVO | |
| Certification | Fairtrade Netherlands |
| Rainforest Alliance | |
| Civil Society | Care Netherlands |
| Fairfood | |
| International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) | |
| International Justice Mission | |
| Oxfam Novib | |
| Save the Children | |
| Solidaridad Network | |
| Tropenbos International | |
| UNICEF Netherlands | |
| Service providers & Knowledge institutes | Agriterra |
| Agro Eco | |
| Equipoise | |
| Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (KIT) | |
| Meridia | |
| Port of Amsterdam | |
| C. Steinweg | |
| Secretariat | IDH |
* the sector organization VBZ have signed on their own behalf and not on behalf of all their members.
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Publications
| Title | Type | Year | Regions | TAF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DISCO Procurement Practices Position Paper 2024 | Commitment | 2024 | - | - |
| Overview of 2024 indicators: Beyond Chocolate & DISCO | Presentation | 2024 | - | - |
| Report – DISCO Annual General Assembly 2023 | Report | 2023 | - | - |
| DISCO Annual Report 2022 | Annual Report | 2023 | - | - |
| DISCO General Strategic Meeting 2023 | Report | 2023 | - | - |
| DISCO newsletter 08 | April 2023 | Brochure | 2023 | - | - |
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