Better together: co-investment towards sustainable cacao development

The cacao value chain, just like any other industry, involves various actors with different roles. It requires action and participation from the producers or the cacao growers, the consolidators, the processors, the chocolatiers, the exporters, the enabling institutions, and many more. Therefore, the sustainable cacao development does not lie on one actor alone. For instance, …

Cacaomustahan Vol. 3, Issue 4 (2024 Year-end Issue)

Cacaomustahan is the official newsletter of SFITAL for the Philippines. It presents updates on the implementation of the project in Davao de Oro, including field activities, new stories, and recent outputs and publications. Issues are released regularly. Receive Cacaomustahan Issues in your inbox! * indicates required Email Address *    

Cacaomustahan Vol. 3, Issue 3 (July to September 2024)

Cacaomustahan is the official newsletter of SFITAL for the Philippines. It presents updates on the implementation of the project in Davao de Oro, including field activities, new stories, and recent outputs and publications. Issues are released regularly. Receive Cacaomustahan Issues in your inbox! * indicates required Email Address *    

[PHOTO SET] Workshop on the creation of a multi-stakeholder information platform for cacao

In line with one of the major interventions in the sustainable cacao roadmap that the project is developing, which is the creation of a centralized information system for cacao, the SFITAL Project conducted a Workshop on the creation of a multi-stakeholder information platform for cacao last 27 September 2024 at Cafe Noventa, Nabunturan, Davao de …

[PHOTO SET] Third Planning Workshop for the Development of a Sustainable Cacao Roadmap for Davao de Oro

In line with the creation of a sustainable cacao roadmap for Davao de Oro, stakeholders from the province convened for the third planning workshop last 25-26 September 2024 at Cafe Noventa, Nabunturan, Davao de Oro. More than 50 representatives from local government units, national government agencies, farmer cooperatives and associations, and concerned private sector partners …

Cacaomustahan Vol. 3, Issue 2 (April to June 2024)

Cacaomustahan is the official newsletter of SFITAL for the Philippines. It presents updates on the implementation of the project in Davao de Oro, including field activities, new stories, and recent outputs and publications. Issues are released regularly. Receive Cacaomustahan Issues in your inbox! * indicates required Email Address *    

Lessons learned in the development and implementation of a sustainable cacao roadmap for North Luwu, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Presented during the Second Planning Workshop for the development of sustainable cacao roadmap for Davao de Oro, Philippines One of the key objectives of the Sustainable Farming in Tropical Asian Landscapes (SFITAL) Project is to develop roadmaps to scale-up and mainstream inclusive, sustainable, and transparent smallholder commodity value chains. To obtain this goal, the Project …

Roadmap of Sustainable Cacao Development in Davao de Oro for 2025-2030, Vision to 2050

One of the key objectives of the Sustainable Farming in Tropical Asian Landscapes (SFITAL) Project is to develop roadmaps to scale-up and mainstream inclusive, sustainable, and transparent smallholder commodity value chains. To obtain this goal, the Project facilitated the creation of a roadmap of sustainable cacao development for Davao de Oro, together with local stakeholders …

A review of the governance of value chains and the environmental and social management systems for cacao for sustainable production and processing practices: The case of Davao de Oro, Philippines

In line with its goal to identify and design supportive value chain governance arrangements, policy and regularulatory environments at regional, national, and local levels, the Sustainable Farming in Tropical Asian Landscapes (SFITAL) Project investigated the governance of the cacao value chain in Davao de Oro province, together with related environmental and socail management systems. The …