Cocoa in digital
Taking Cocoa to Digital
Digital transformation is driving change in every business sector, and the cocoa value chain is no exception.
We act across the entire supply chain, connecting stakeholders at many different levels.
By leveraging the power of technology, we aim to spearhead the sector’s journey toward greater transparency and create lasting impact for all stakeholders, especially in cocoa-growing communities.
Farmers receive more tailored support
Digitization in cocoa-growing countries is providing a significant opportunity to accelerate change in the cocoa sector.
Small farmers are increasingly getting access to web or mobile applications. Mobile information services for farmers can significantly transform the way we can interact with farmers and farmer organizations.
Through mobile applications, farm developments are captured continuously, so we can measure the effects and tailor our services.
This solution combined to mobile banking provides farmers with fair and secure electronic payments.
As farmers digitally capture the progress of their cocoa business, they are better connected to input providers and local banks, which contributes to a virtuous cycle for livelihood improvement
Landscapes are better protected
Tackling deforestation and restoring landscapes starts with knowing where to look.
Digital tools, such as GPS-powered tablets, enable us to make polygon maps of all the farms in our supply chain.
We also intend to work with the World Resources Institute‘s Global Forest Watch initiative, which provides satellite imagery and machine learning techniques to identify forest change at a very fast pace.
Our farm polygon maps are overlaid with their recent satellite data of forests and protected areas to see if deforestation has potentially taken place in our supply chain.
Without this technology, it will be very difficult in many cases to see where and when deforestation might have happened.
Customers, and their consumers, get direct insights
Cocoa takes a long journey. In different forms, it moves from warehouse to warehouse and across many borders. Digitization along the supply chain provides customers, and their consumers, with radically transparent and holistic insights into the origin of cocoa.
At ACC, we put digital technologies to work to collect extensive information about changes on cocoa farms, farmers, their communities and landscapes.
In this way, customers, and their consumers, are directly connected to the story of cocoa at the origin level, growing their confidence in sustainable cocoa.
