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Through capacity development in collaboration with our partner ACADEMOA, our partner farmers improve their skills or acquire new skills to process the raw materials according to our needs and quality requirements. They use this knowledge, usually in decentralised centres and under the supervision of the AFOODS Group, to extract raw materials before they are processed into finished or semi-finished products in centralised processing facilities.
Whether our products are fully or partially manufactured in the country where the raw materials are harvested depends largely on the environmental costs of transporting the finished products to the sales market
In any case, at least 50% of production should take place in the country of origin.
After all, it is unacceptable that almost 90% of the cocoa, cashew and coffee value chain continues to take place outside the countries of origin, which means that no new jobs are created in the producing countries. This is despite the fact that neither cocoa, coffee nor cashew nuts are grown in Switzerland or Germany, for example.
Where the environmental costs of transporting finished products exceed the environmental costs of manufacturing in the market where they are sold, only semi-finished products are manufactured in the country of origin.
In the case of cocoa bean shells, for example, we go one step further by working with selected European partners to use their cocoa shells produced in Europe. The original cocoa farmers whose beans are processed by the European partners are identified and receive the purchase price of the cocoa shells we source.
AFOODS Group operates directly on the ground in the countries of origin with selected partners. Through appropriate capacity development activities and strict quality controls along the entire chain, we ensure that AFOODS products meet the highest quality standards.
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