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Tony’s Open Chain strengthens operational resilience by offering flexible sourcing, long-term supply agreements and full traceability across operational, social and environmental dimensions. • Flexible sourcing, fixed impact. Tony’s Open Chain empowers Mission Allies to collaborate with a range of processing and sourcing partners. These partners source cocoa beans from our partner cooperatives. Mission Allies have the flexibility to choose and switch between supply chain partners for their processing and sourcing while ensuring long-term impact with Tony’s Open Chain partner cooperatives. This ensures long- term impact for farmers, regardless of how the supply chain evolves. • Supply security. By embedding long-term commitments into our sourcing model, Tony’s Open Chain ensures reliable access to high-quality cocoa through long-term partnerships with trusted partner cooperatives. Mission Allies can strengthen supply security by leveraging this network of cooperatives, which have a track record of consistently delivering the required volumes (thereby providing financial, as well as operational security). • Multi-level traceability. Tony’s Open Chain offers comprehensive traceability across the supply chain; at the operational level via our BeanTracker, at the social level via the CLMRS and at the environmental level via deforestation risk monitoring. We use the data from each level of traceability to proactively drive impact on the ground: to enable remediation of child labour and deforestation cases, and inform long-term prevention strategies.
Tony’s Open Chain puts people and the environment at the heart of its impact model – and we have the results to prove that it has a real impact. • All farmers, rather than some. Our approach is inclusive and comprehensive: we source all our cocoa, rather than just some of it, via ethical procurement practices (the 5 Sourcing Principles). This means, for example, that all farming households are covered by the CLMRS and that all farmers who deliver cocoa to our Mission Allies receive premiums. • Local ownership. We believe cocoa farmers should shape their own future. That’s why our model is farmer- and cooperative-centric. Partner cooperatives own the implementation of the 5 Sourcing Principles (and the data that results from them), ensuring solutions are locally rooted and led by the people most directly affected. • Depth over breadth. Tony’s Open Chain uses a closed, fully demand-driven impact model. This means we onboard new partner cooperatives when there is sufficient long-term demand for cocoa from Mission Allies. With this, we strive to achieve deep impact, rather than impact thinly spread across many. • Proven impact model. With child labour prevalence averaging 3.9% across long-term partner cooperatives, and 99.95 - 100% of our cocoa sourced deforestation-free since 2019, these results prove our model delivers on the impact promised.
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