24F VS - UGROW - Inclusive vanilla and cocoa value chains for fair growth, Uganda

About this project

The project aims to improve income, livelihoods and climate change resilience for poor, marginalized smallholder farmers by ensuring locally profitable, transparent and socially and environmentally sustainable value chains for vanilla and cocoa in an important and fragile ecosystem in Western Uganda. Through the project, the business’ current value proposition (“Indulgence for all chocolate lovers”) is supported, but increased engagement with younger and environmentally conscious customers is sought. A high level of innovation and resources are required, both with training, but especially within certification and geotagging, resulting in further development of certification standards and learnings for the coming EUDR requirements. Today, Fairtrade certified cocoa is produced in Ghana and Ivory Coast and shipped to large processing facilities in Europe on a mass-balance basis. The partly processed cocoa (liquor) is then shipped to the business’ chocolate producer in Germany for the chocolate production.

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 13Climate Action

Published by

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark · Government

Countries

Uganda

Sectors

Agricultural land resourcesIII.1.a. Agriculture

Focus

Environment · Main focusBiodiversity · Also contributesClimate adaptation · Also contributes

Funded by

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark

Accountable

Verdens Skove

Published by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 3 Nov 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-3-1-289174-37268.

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