AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS — UTZ Certified has set a goal of making 50% of the world’s total coffee, cocoa and tea production sustainable in the next decade. Utz Certified has developed sustainability ...

Last year was a record-breaking one for the UTZ sustainable farming programme and certification scheme. Being able to provide companies with a scalable way to source certified sustainable commodities ...

Agribusiness and food giant Cargill said it has produced the first UTZ Certified chocolate for the Dutch market. The chocolate, in the form of Easter eggs, has been developed by Baronie, an Easter egg ...

Together, the two NGOs certify some 182,000 cocoa, coffee, and tea farmers around the world. The merger will allow those farmers, and any new farmers who choose to work with the future Rainforest ...

Building on its position as the third largest coffee roaster in the world and its success in driving sustainability in its European beverage business, Sara Lee® Foodservice is introducing Good Origin ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Rainforest Alliance said it was strengthening its cocoa certification programme after its Utz scheme came under fire last year for auditing lapses that resulted in it certifying ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Global chocolate makers are buying more cocoa sourced through schemes aimed at stamping out poverty as they rush to make their supply chains more ethical ahead of self-imposed 2020 ...

Two of the world’s leaders in sustainable agriculture and certification, Rainforest Alliance and UTZ have announced plans to merge later this year in an effort to simplify the certification process ...

In 2018 Rainforest Alliance merged with UTZ, another leading sustainability certification, to create a single, larger organization. Since then it has been working hard to produce an updated set of ...

FILE PHOTO: A man shows an opened cocoa pod at his plantation in Barlovento, Venezuela November 21, 2018. Picture taken November 21, 2018. REUTERS/Marco Bello The organisation said it would strenthen ...