West Africa cocoa sector struggles to meet EU anti-deforestation rules, raising supply concerns

Source: Reuters Ojo Ayaninuola, a small-scale cocoa farmer from Akure in southwestern Nigeria, was initially reluctant to let exporters map and geolocate his farm as part of measures to comply with a looming EU anti-deforestation law. But when one of the country’s ‌largest exporters and the buyer of all his cocoa beans, Sunbeth Global, warned that […]