Cocoa Horizons is Barry Callebaut's proprietary sustainability programme for cocoa sourcing, run through its Cocoa Horizons Foundation. It combines premium payments to farmers, farm and community programmes (child-labour monitoring, women's empowerment, agroforestry), and traceability systems, with volumes sold as Cocoa Horizons Verified under the company's own assurance arrangements. Like other company-run programmes, its claims rest on the owner's definitions and verification choices rather than a multi-stakeholder standard; its published scale figures are company-reported. The programme publishes annual progress reporting through Barry Callebaut's Forever Chocolate commitments, including farmer-income and child-labour-monitoring coverage figures. Because it operates across Barry Callebaut's supply base, its scale makes it one of the largest single cocoa-sourcing programmes in the sector, which is also why its definitions matter to claim-watchers. Its scale figures reach six-figure farmer counts, and premiums and programme data are reported through Barry Callebaut's Forever Chocolate reporting. Claims should be read as company-reported programme outputs. Alignment with these principles is a stated position, not a certification; it does not by itself demonstrate compliance or outcomes.
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