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Grameen program to improve livelihoods of coco farmers
by The Manila Times
Dec 05, 2022 12:31 am

GRAMEEN Foundation in partnership with Barry Callebaut, the world's leading manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products, has launched a five-year program in the Davao Region designed to improve 25,000 smallholder farmers' copra production and incomes and connect them to markets, while ensuring positive social and environmental impacts.

The Sustainable Coconut Project is funded by Barry Callebaut, in support of its Sustainable Coconut Oil Strategy and the Sustainable Coconut Oil Charter.

Grameen Foundation and Barry Callebaut work together to benefit eight cooperatives, 35 field agents and 25,000 coconut farmers in the Davao Region. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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