Dark chocolates

In this region where native, mestizo and Afro-Ecuadorian populations live, small farmers created the FONMSOEAM cooperative with the will to unite the communities. Without any experience at the beginning, they had to learn everything: the organization of democracy, financial management, quality control, organic certification, fair trade guarantee, and finally the direct export of cocoa. ETHIQUABLE's agronomist accompanies them on site.

The cocoa for this tablet also comes from the SCEB cooperative in the Ivory Coast, which harvests the country's first fair trade and organic cocoa.

Deforestation is the scourge of the Haitian countryside. The cause: charcoal, which is the only accessible fuel. The problem: the clear decrease of fertile lands. The most effective way to fight against massive cutting is a productive tree cover. With fair trade, the producers of the FECCANO cooperative preserve their cocoa trees and use the other trees present on their plots to fertilize their crop.

Since 2010, the 174 producers of the SCEB with the support of ETHIQUABLE's agronomists, have been building a unique and alternative with an organic cocoa whose beans are traced from the traced from the plots to the tablet.
The cocoa for this bar also comes from the FONMSOEAM cooperative in Ecuador.

A tree which generates a stable and guaranteed income is not cut down. In this way, fair trade makes it possible to preserve and to develop cocoa trees in Haiti which, in turn, contribute to the fight against erosion.

Cocoa from Ivory Coast is often considered a standard quality product for the mass market. However, collecting cocoa from a single area can reveal specific flavors. This is the case in Tiassalé, where the 250 producers of the SCEB obtain a particularly fruity cocoa with an intense chocolate taste. They have succeeded in building an unprecedented project: producing cocoa without any chemical products and controlling all the stages of post-harvest processing. On its own scale, this farmers' organization offers an alternative to the crisis in the sector.

The NORANDINO cooperative is the pride of producers who have been discriminated by the elite of the Coast. The initiative of a small group has involved more than 6,000 farmers in a country marked by the absence of a policy in favor of peasant agriculture.
The cocoa for this bar also comes from the FECCANO cooperative in Haiti.

The cocoa farms of NORANDINO producers are far from the intensive plantations that eliminate all other species.
species. A fair price for cocoa encourages the preservation of the natural forest that has not been cleared until now.
The cocoa in this bar also comes from the FECCANO cooperative in Haiti.

APODIP families have small diversified areas where they grow a variety of cocoa native to the area. This diversification, supported by a fair price, has allowed them to rebound and bring new families into the cooperative.

With 38 producers at its creation in 2010, the SCEB has now 216 members. In a context of very low cocoa prices, a fair price and direct purchases allow the an autonomous and democratic cooperative.
The cocoa for this bar also comes from the FONMSOEAM cooperative in Ecuador.