Entry: Clementine Leahy, World Cocoa Foundation

The World Cocoa Foundation would like to thank all participants to the 16th Partnership meeting that was held in Brussels on October 14-15, 2009. Over 200 people from government, non-government organizations (NGO's), chocolate companies and researchers attended the two day conference.

Subjects covered included: connecting the farmer to consumer; building capacity at the community, institutional and individual levels; applied science and extension; standard systems in the cocoa sector; recent production and consumption trends; and social issues in commodity chains such as child labor.

The meeting presentations are now available on our website at the following link.

We are thankful to your support of sustainable cocoa efforts and look forward to seeing each of you at the 17th World Cocoa Foundation Partnership Meeting in May 2010.