The World’s Best Chocolate…
Chocolate and Economic Sustainability
As a believer in equality, Miss Witt is all about empowerment.
She has a passion for educating chocolate lovers about the chocolate industry and showing us how the quality of the chocolate is enhanced by the local community of cocoa growers benefiting directly from their own chocolate.
THE CHOCOLATE PRODUCERS.
Cardenas.
Award-winning speciality chocolate made with fine flavoured “Nacional” single-origin cacao from Manabí, Ecuador.
Susana Cárdenas undertook an ambitious search for lost and forgotten cacao in her native Ecuador in order to make the best quality chocolate possible. To find these varieties, Cardenas travelled extensively, reconnecting with local communities. Her intention, to keep the heritage and the unique identity of the regional flavours through the taste and beauty of the cacao. Cardenas's purpose is to transform the region of Manabí to become the ‘Bordeaux’ of cacao and ‘The Chocolate’ of Latin America. Cardenas Cacao is grown by Leonardo Andrade. Leonardo (seen in this photo with Susana Cardenas) is a community leader in Upper Manabí, Ecuador with 30 years of experience in ‘Nacional’ cacao. His bond with cacao cultivation dates back three generations, to his father and grandfather. He is committed to keeping the legacy of his ancestors alive and empowering his community of cacao producers.
Chocolat Madagascar
Multi International Award-winning Finest Origin Chocolate, freshly produced in Madagascar from the finest Cacao.
Pictured: Employee Odile Jaovizara, processing the cacao.
Grown in the Sambirano valley in Northwest Madagascar by farmers, who are paid premium prices which depend on the quality of the rare cocoa beans harvested. The higher income raises the standard of living within the community. The cocoa is carefully prepared by the farmers themselves, fermenting and drying the end product. While most cocoa is then exported to Chocolate factories around the world where the beans are then turned into chocolate, the fresh cocoa stays in Madagascar to be crafted into Fine Chocolate at the Chocolaterie Robert factory. This raises the skills, the value and ultimately contributes to raising the wealth of the community at origin.
This chocolate goes beyond fair trade...it is an example based on the principle of RAISETRADE
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