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  "description": "Côte d’Ivoire accounted for 36% of global cocoa bean production in 2024. Yet despite years of corporate sustainability pledges, European regulation and multimillion-dollar traceability programmes, more than half of the country’s cocoa exports remain effectively invisible to public scrutiny",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-12T15:01:57.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Exclusive Member Analysis. Daily.Daily.\n\n##  Join our growing community of members and receive a free version of our daily newsletter on what really matters in cocoa.\n\nNo spam. Unsubscribe anytime.\n\n\n        Subscribe\n        →\n\n\n💡\n\n****Exclusive analysis for CocoaRadar Members****\n\nNew analysis from Trase reveals that only 48% of Ivorian cocoa exports in 2024 could be traced publicly to specific production departments through disclosures made by trading companies. The remaining 52% flowed through opaque channels – either sourced indirectly through intermediaries or undisclosed entirely by traders.\n\nThe findings expose a critical fault line in the global cocoa sustainability agenda at a time when the industry is under mounting pressure over deforestation, farmer poverty and child labour risks.\n\nAdvertisement\n\n\n\n\n\n> “Cocoa supply chains in Côte d’Ivoire have driven shocking rates of forest loss, while low farmgate prices mean most farmers do not earn a living income,” said Mark Titley, researcher at Trase. “This data reinforces the outsized role of a small number of traders, whose visibility and leverage in the supply chain put them in a unique position to drive change.”\n\n## **A Highly Concentrated Trade With Uneven Transparency**\n\nThe report underscores how concentrated Côte d’Ivoire’s cocoa economy has become. Just six trading companies accounted for 67% of all cocoa exports in 2024, giving a small group of multinationals enormous influence over environmental and social outcomes across the sector.\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "Hidden Cocoa: Why 52% Of Côte d’Ivoire’s Cocoa Supply Chain Remains In The Dark",
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