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Cocoa companies fail on pledge to stop Africa deforestation - report

A farmer is seen at his cocoa plantation in Toumodi, Ivory Coast October. [Photo: Reuters]

DAKAR - Major chocolate companies have failed to keep a promise they made a year ago to stop forests in West Africa being destroyed for cocoa production, a campaign group said on Friday.

Companies from Mars to Hershey to Barry Callebaut joined the governments of Ivory Coast and Ghana to launch the Cocoa and Forests Initiative last year, pledging to eliminate the production and sourcing of cocoa from protected forests.

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