Striving to create fairer conditions for farmers in major producing nations serving the confectionery sector remains at the core of World Cocoa Foundation's (WCF) values. It was 20 years ago this month that the not-for-profit organisation was bestowed with its present title, having been set up just a few years earlier by the US Chocolate Manufacturers' Association and its related group, the American Cocoa Research Institute. Together, they had worked with the cocoa sector since the 1920s, yet as the group acknowledges, it was not until the 1990s it was fully realised that driving sustainability directly within Ivory Coast and Ghana would be critical to the industry's survival. Consequently, after becoming independent in 2002, the organisation established its present-day base in Washington DC, under the stewardship of Bill Guyton as president.
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