The Bitter Truth Behind Your Favourite Chocolate Bar

What motivates someone to advocate for sustainable cocoa for nearly two decades? Hope, but not the comfortable kind. Armed with both anger and courage, Antonie C. Fountain offers his candid assessment of the cocoa sector, examining what has genuinely changed in the last 10 years, what has stalled, and what still needs to happen before cocoa can be considered truly sustainable.

While farmers remain impoverished, trees continue to be felled and children are still working, Antonie argues that this crisis also represents cocoa's greatest opportunity, if we are bold enough to seize it.