Cocoa continues to dominate fair trade, although its sale in Spain falls by 2.13%

Published 2023년 7월 7일

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Sales of fair trade cocoa products in Spain have slightly decreased to represent 76.5% of all products with the fair trade seal, compared to 78.5% in 2020. Despite this decrease, fair trade cocoa continues to dominate the market. The State Fair Trade Coordinator highlights that the challenges faced by fair trade cocoa production include poverty, low wages, deforestation, environmental degradation, and child labor exploitation, particularly exacerbated by the global economic crisis and climate change. Fair trade organizations are advocating for political measures to address these challenges and promote environmental and human rights in the cocoa industry globally.

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Sales of fair trade cocoa products represent 76.5% of total sales of products with this seal in Spain, two percentage points less than in 2020, although they continue to largely dominate this segment. This is stated in the data from the State Fair Trade Coordinator (CECJ), which detail that sales of this product in 2021 reached 110.2 million euros, 2.13% less than the previous year. The data for 2022 will not be consolidated until next September, sources from the CECJ have indicated to Efeagro, consulted on the occasion of the celebration this Friday of World Cocoa Day. “That chocolate has decreased its sales by two points is not very significant. In that period of time, the percentage of coffee sales increased by 1%. They are the two main fair trade products and this variation of 1 or 2 points is not significant”, they express from the organization. Globally, the cocoa industry moves 103,000 million dollars (about 94,473 million euros), of which fair trade cocoa represents just ...

Source: PEefeagro