fast facts
Ghana
- Ghana has 23 million people
- Ghana is the world’s second largest cocoa producer
- Ghana has around 720,000 cocoa farmers
- Ghana’s climate is well suited to growing cocoa beans
- Cadbury imports many of its cocoa beans from Ghana
Cocoa
- Chocolate is made from cocoa beans
- Cocoa beans grow in pods on the Cocoa tree
- There are about 25 beans in 1 cocoa pod
- Cocoa beans are dried for days before being used to make chocolate
- One cocoa pod makes two 49g bars of Cadbury Dairy Milk
The Cadbury Cocoa Partnership
- The Cadbury Cocoa Partnership benefits Ghana’s cocoa farmers
- The Partnership was launched in 2008, one hundred years after Cadbury began buying cocoa from Ghana
- The Cadbury Cocoa Partnership will invest £45 million over a ten-year period in projects to help cocoa farmers
- £30 million of this will be invested in Ghana.
- Cadbury’s partners include the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) and CARE International