Specifically, our Foundation works together with local coaches in cocoa cooperatives, i.e., with social entrepreneurs, in order to increase cocoa quality through improved post-harvest processes such as fermentation and drying of cocoa beans, productivity increase through rejuvenating and planting of new cocoa trees, through pursuing and implementing good agricultural practices, building a central cocoa collection and quality control center, working towards bio/fair trade certification and developing access to interesting shared value markets
