No deforestation
In the last 100 years, more than 90% of the original West African forests were lost. According to research by Forest 500, at the current rate of
deforestation, Côte d'Ivoire risks losing all its forest cover by 2034. In a 2017 Mighty Earth investigation it was estimated that 40% of the Ivorian cocoa comes from protected areas. A study published in the journal Tropical Conservation Science in 2015 concluded that three-quarters of the land in five national parks and 18 forest reserves in Côte d’Ivoire had been transformed for cocoa production. And cocoa farmers are already feeling the consequences of climate change.
GPS mapping: environmental traceability
Tony’s Open Chain uses 100% traceable cocoa for our chocolate and therefore know exactly where our cocoa comes from. To have fully transparent bean-to-bar
traceability, meaning knowing the origin, the flow, and the quantities of the beans, allows us to have insights that enable us to create a fairer supply chain based on a direct connection, that creates accountability and the ability to take responsibility. To be able to guarantee no deforestation occurs because of the cocoa Tony’s Open Chain sources, it is necessary to know where the cocoa farms are located and compare the data with governmental forest maps. This year, 100% of all farms had been mapped and mapped against protected areas and checked against the newest governmental forest boundary maps. The data is kept up to date through annual remapping exercises and the data quality is held to the highest standards of polygon mapping. We work together with Satelligence to carry out deforestation risk assessments and monitor illegal deforestation. They compare farms in our supply chain against protected areas and boundaries used by the Cocoa & Forests Initiative. Satelligence has also conducted a ‘land use change analysis’ for the period from 2001 to 2021. The results of the analysis show that no deforestation or forest loss has occurred since 2001. And that around 90% of emissions from cocoa beans production in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire come from land use change. However, land use change represents less than 25% of the cocoa emissions of Tony’s Open Chain.
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Tony’s Open Chain impact report 2021/22
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