Last Tuesday, the delegate of the Café-Cacao Council (CCC) for the Ivorian region of Haut-Sassandra (west), Mamadou Fadiga Deye announced that Côte d'Ivoire will no longer be able to export untraced cocoa to the European Union (EU) from 2025.

The delegate of the Café-Cacao Council indicated during a workshop in Gagnoa that the country of Ivorians will only be able to export cocoa to the EU as of January 2025 if its origin is known. The main objective of this measure is to promote the sustainability of the coffee-cocoa sector. Traceability involves the geolocation of production plots and aims to set up a cocoa marketing mechanism that makes it possible to trace its journey from the plantations to the ports of embarkation