Tony’s tops the Chocolate Scorecard
We’re proud to share that for the 6th time running, Tony’s has topped the Chocolate Scorecard – an independent assessment of how chocolate companies source their cocoa.
Released around Easter every year, the Chocolate Scorecard is an independent assessment of the chocolate industry, founded by Be Slavery Free and Mighty Earth, along with other civil society organizations. Unwrapping the truth about chocolate brands’ business practices, the Chocolate Scorecard ranks and grades companies on key sustainability issues, celebrating the industry’s frontrunners while calling out those who can (and should!) do better. Curious about our score? Let’s dive right in..
we’re seeing green!
Our green score reflects our commitment to sourcing all our cocoa according to Tony’s Sourcing Principles, designed to tackle the willful exploitation of people and land – which has led to widespread poverty among cocoa farmers, 1.56 million children* working on cocoa farms and extensive deforestation across West Africa.
*NORC report, 2020
This year, we raised our score on pesticides from yellow to green. We’re super proud to see that our increased efforts in monitoring pesticides and reducing risks to farmers – via increased investment in labor brigades – are paying off.
Our agroforestry score is yellow this year, though – a sign that we can raise the bar, too. We strive to score green in all areas, so we can make as much impact as possible, and we recognize that agroforestry is a big part of that.
We’re working on developing a long-term agroforestry strategy across our supply chain. That means we’re busy identifying ways to create more complex forms of agroforests on cocoa farms. We believe this strategy will help reduce risks associated with climate change, pests and diseases, and will strengthen farmers’ resilience.
only together, we can
While it’s good to see some (though sadly not all..) of the big chocolate companies making progress on transparency and traceability, we all have further to go if we are to tackle the challenges of living income and child labor.
