Amazon Origin Cocoa: Beyond deforestation-free potential.

Javier Ortiz; Latam Director, TFA

Jose Mejía, CEO, Amazonas Trading

Pedro Ronca, Manager, Cocoa Action Brazil

Wendy Arenas, Executive Director, Alisos

Joao Evangelista, Brazilian producer

Marco Guilcapi, Lead of cocoa program, ProAmazonia of Ecuador

Daniel Arancibia, Latin America Director, Proforest

Ada Lis Rosell, Country Manager for Peru, Solidaridad

Daniel Coronel, Peru Coordinator, TFA

Angélica Fort, Lead of Cocoa, Forests and Diversity Agreement of Peru, Solidaridad

Event by: Tropical Forest Alliance, Solidaridad, CocoaAction Brazil, ProAmazonia, Alisos, Proforest

Format

Virtual

Duration

1 hour

Language

English

Spanish

Thursday, September 22, 2022

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy17zbkHka-d7H5aHw4S0nw

United States

Why it is important to mobilize efforts for sustainable cocoa of Amazonian origin to promote a bioeconomy solution?

Join us in this exchange of experiences, to learn:

· Why Amazon cocoa has ecological, social, and economic value

· How progress has been made to achieve sustainable cocoa