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September 1, 2026
Traceability and compliance matter—but nearly three-quarters of agricultural payments are still made in cash. Here's why Orijin built mobile money into the platform, and what it means for farmers at the point of collection.
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September 25, 2025
Money doesn't grow on trees, but coffee and cacao do. The trees that yield your caffeine jolt or chocolate fix grow in distant locations and depend on smallholder farmers' labour. …
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May 6, 2025
Smallholder farmers in Southeast Asia play an important role in the global supply chains of palm oil, rubber, coffee, and cocoa. These crops generate livelihoods for an [estimated]…
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February 11, 2025
Every bite of chocolate tells a story. But how many of us know the origin of our favourite treats? It’s a long trip that most likely began on a small farm located within the “cocoa…
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November 28, 2024
In a landmark move to drive sustainable practices in global agriculture, Orijin has secured strategic funding to further its mission of transforming supply chains for crops like co…
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November 28, 2024
Today’s global climate challenges - deforestation; biodiversity loss; pollution of air, water, and soil; warming temperatures - have their origins in the overuse of fossil fuels, w…
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July 30, 2024
Salla Mankinen, CEO and Founder of Orijin, recently participated in a panel discussion at the Amsterdam Sustainable Cocoa Conference, hosted by Chocoa. This event was part of the W…
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July 4, 2024
The first time we visited John Adamnor’s farm was in 2019, when ACM was launching the [series](https://www.confectionerynews.com/Article/2019/08/09/You-the-whites-are-eating-cocoa.…
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June 27, 2024
Orijin is dedicated to combating deforestation by ensuring EUDR compliance for producers and importers of coffee and cocoa in Africa and Latin America. Their mission is to help pro…
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June 20, 2024
Like any business, cocoa farming includes processing a lot of data: on yields, investment, sales, land size, maintenance activities, and so forth.…
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June 14, 2024
Orijin and African Cocoa Marketplace organised a webinar on the forthcoming EUDR to attempt to decipher the complexities and still unknown aspects of the regulation to hopefully gi…
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June 12, 2024
We continue our TRUE COSTS OF EUDR series with African Cocoa Marketplace, which reveals the challenges of walking a farm boundary, and the necessity of having a farmer there to ens…
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June 10, 2024
Arctic15 is a major Nordic startup event having been organised for over a decade. The prestigious pitching competition garners interest from venture capitalists, angel investors an…
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June 4, 2024
Photo above: Dr. Kristy Leissle, John Adamnor, and Martha "Kakra" Ataa-Asantewaa on John's cocoa farm near Suhum, Ghana (c)African Cocoa Marketplace, Inc.…
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June 4, 2024
We are grateful to our friend and longtime colleague John Adamnor for sharing the ups and downs of his crop this year in our series, A Cocoa Season in Ghana with John Adamnor.…
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June 4, 2024
Some farms have already been mapped. Many more have not, particularly in countries where there is no strong marketing board or regulator for the EUDR- relevant commodity to take th…
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June 3, 2024
In practical terms, this means that all operators dealing with cocoa and other commodities (coffee, cattle, oil, palm, rubber, soy, and wood) must provide sufficient evidence of no…
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