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International Commodities

Information for Confluence Campus students abut international commodities.

 

Academic Level of Resources

 = Introductory

 = Intermediate

 = Academic

Chocolate Companies

Corporate Social Responsibility refers to voluntary activities undertaken by companies to operate in an economic, social and environmentally sustainable manner. Below are links to Corporate Social Responsibility documents and other resources from some of the worlds largest chocolate companies.

Creating Shared Value are corporate policies and practices that seek to enhance the competitiveness of a company while simultaneously advancing social and economic conditions in the communities in which the company sells and operates. 

​  Nestle: Creating shared value

 

 

 

Industry Information

Before becoming a bar, or hot drink, cocoa gets shipped, stashed and smashed. Below are links to websites that contain information about this process and who is buying the Cocoa and from where.

 International Cocoa Organization

 World Atlas of Chocolate

 Cocoa Story: Cultivation, Trade and transport

 The Economics of Chocolate

Cocoa Farming Conditions

 Child cocoa workers still 'exploited'

 Food Empowerment Project

 The fairness Gap

 

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