Cocoa, the shared challenges between Ivory Coast and Netherlands

The Netherlands is the largest cocoa processing country in the world, playing a major role in the various issues related to the sector, whether it be economic, social, agronomic, environmental or political. And in the Netherlands is based Wageningen University & Research, with more than 7,500 employees and 15,000 students, rated number one on the planet for its work specialized in food, feed and biobased production, natural resources and living environment, society and well-being. These two factors - the importance of the Netherlands on the world cocoa scene and the importance of Wageningen in the field of research in agricultural and social sciences - easily explain the weight of the university's research work in the cocoa sector in Côte d'Ivoire, the world's cocoa production leader. Wageningen has conducted research on cocoa to the value of more than 4 million euros over the past five years. Wageningen researchers have been working on the cocoa sector for more than a decade, in ...