Eticwood®

🌍✨ Exciting news! Our esteemed partner PALLISCO-CIFM has featured us in their monthly publication, L'Echo des Forêts, which is dedicated to their team and local communities. This is a wonderful recognition from our long-standing partner! 😊 It’s hard to believe it’s been four years since we embarked on this journey together for responsible cacao! Thanks to the support of the AFD - Agence Française de Développement, we launched this remarkable initiative in 2020 alongside PCP-ACEFA. Today, we celebrate the independence of the Kongo cooperative, which now manages its workforce, invests in its production equipment, and provides valuable guidance to its members. Eticwood continues to offer technical support in agro practices, quality assurance for cacao, and guidance on exports—all while ensuring zero deforestation in alignment with the RDUE. Once the beans arrive in Belgium, they are transformed by the artisanal chocolatier ECOCOA into exceptional bean-to-bar chocolate that tells a beautiful story! The icing on the (chocolate)cake—and the most gratifying recognition of our efforts—is that new bean-to-bar chocolatiers are approaching us to learn how to source cacao from Kongo! We are thrilled to assist them, as increased sales of these beans translate to higher incomes for our partners! We are immensely proud to have demonstrated the viability and importance of collaboration among local communities, chocolatiers, and dedicated foresters in creating a new model for sustainable natural resource management that benefits everyone. Together, we’re making a difference! 🍫💚

ETICWOOD in Odzala-Kokoua! After an epic ride through the open Congolese ‘bush’ landscape in a sturdy Toyota landcruiser, the towering green wall, of virgin primary forest vegetation of the Odzala-Kokoua National Park came in sight. Evoking images of the forest elephants and gorillas lurking within. Team Eticwood joined forces with Nature+ asbl+ and African Parks Network, for an intense week of field visits and exploring market opportunities in the cocoa landscape on the fringes of the Odzala-Kokoua National Park. We met up with local chieftains, researchers and entrepreneurs to promote the vision and values of ETICWOOD, Nature+ asbl+ and African Parks Network to combine conservation, commerce and community development. Following last year’s successful production of the first Odzala-Kokoua, conservation friendly, dark chocolate. The scaling up of forest cocoa bean sourcing, is now up and running. Providing access to high end markets for local communities, bordering the national park. And creating opportunities and incentives for communities in the front line of nature conservation, to better preserve their natural ecosystems.  Further incentives for high quality fermentation and drying, is provided in the form of a premium, paid to the producers, after a thorough quality check. We can’t wait to start churning out this season’s first batches of Odzala-Kokoua dark chocolate at ECOCOA.

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The Cameroonian cocoa harvest is in full swing! Team EticWood is excited to continue the collaboration with our local partners, Pallisco and GIC Placko. Our colleague Niels Vanhoudt travelled to the village of Kongo, where all the members of the cooperative were gathered for a mutual exchanging of ideas. These fruitful discussions resulted in the signing of a new supply contract, strengthening the long running collaboration. In the centre of excellence, the quality of the drying and fermentation process was streamlined. And finally, we dove into the equatorial forest to find the colourful pods ripening on the cocoa stems, in the shade of old forest growth. Here the pods are carefully separated from the tree trunks and only the best beans are selected for fermentation. And then transported to the fermentation facilities, hornbills flying overhead and clouds of large colourful butterflies nearby. Undaunted by torrential rains and tropical heat and following our GPS training session, the field agents will now continue to gather GPS coordinates of even the most remote cocoa plots. This will assure EUDR zero deforestation compliance and the long-term sustainability of the ECocoa forest-cacao supply chain. Looking forward to the final export of the beans and further processing in the chocolaterie!

Eticwood recrute! Dans le cadre de la poursuite de son développement. ETICWOOD est à la recherche de son/sa future Coordinateur.rice de Projets.   Tous les détails dans l'annonce ci-dessous.   Les candidatures par LinkedIn ne seront pas traitées.   A vos CV!

Eticwood recrute! Dans le cadre de la poursuite de son développement. ETICWOOD est à la recherche de son/sa future Coordinateur.rice de Projets.   Tous les détails dans l'annonce ci-dessous.   Les candidatures par LinkedIn ne seront pas traitées.   A vos CV!

Merci Niels Vanhoudt pour l'accompagnement à Kongo! La campagne 2024 s'annonce prometteuse 😀 Alors que le RDUE pourrait être repoussé d'une année, les producteurs et ETICWOOD ne perdent pas de vue l'objectif d'un cacao d'exception traçable et zéro-déforestation ! Au fait, c'est l'heure de la pause café... prends-toi un chocolat ECOCOA! 😁

Le Programme UE #APV #FLEGT vient de publier un appel d'offre pour développer le système de traçabilité du bois du #Honduras. La date limite pour répondre est le 11 novembre ✍ The #EU FLEGT VPA Programme just published a tender to develop the timber #traceability system in Honduras. The deadline to respond is November 11th 📝 📆

👩🍳 Chez Marcova, nous avons à cœur de collaborer avec des producteurs qui partagent nos valeurs et travaillent avec passion. Cet engagement se reflète dans le choix de nos fournisseurs, avec qui nous prenons le temps d’échanger sur nos attentes respectives, leur histoire, leurs valeurs et la qualité de leurs produits. 🍫 C’est pourquoi, aujourd’hui, nous vous présentons notre nouveau fournisseur de chocolat : ECOCOA 🌱 Dans leur atelier belge, Caroline et Lisa transforment un « cacao de forêt » en chocolat de qualité, grâce à un processus de production entièrement traçable. Elles collaborent étroitement avec les cacaoculteurs du Cameroun pour garantir une production éthique qui respecte le processus de culture d’origine du cacao, sans déforestation ni surexploitation. Elles veillent également à payer un prix équitable, afin d'assurer des conditions de vie décentes aux producteurs tout en protégeant les forêts tropicales. 📍 Une fois arrivé à Péruwelz, en Belgique, le cacao est torréfié, concassé et broyé directement dans leurs ateliers pour devenir un chocolat authentique, décliné en une gamme professionnelle et une gamme destinée aux particuliers. ⭐ Contactez-nous pour découvrir un chocolat qui fait la différence ! #chocolat #environnement #qualité #éthique #equitable #francefrais #fournisseurs #gourmet #restauration #commerciale #restaurateur #food #nourriture #chef #alimentaire #restaurationcommerciale #produitsdenosregions #resto #client #gastronomie #hautsdefrance #lille