From September 28 to Monday September 30, 2024, Côte d’Ivoire was decked out in cocoa colors for the Journées Nationales du Cacao et du Chocolat (JNCC 2024). The event, organized by the Coffee-Cocoa Council and the Ministry of Agriculture, was attended by cocoa industry players and chocolate lovers alike.
The meeting place for cocoa players and chocolate lovers in Côte d’Ivoire
Producers, buyers, exporters, processors, chocolate makers, NGOs and development organizations, government and public authorities, consumers, etc. met from Saturday September 28 to Monday September 30, 2024, at the Parc des expositions in Abidjan to discuss development prospects for the cocoa sector. The theme of this 9th edition of the Journées Nationales du Cacao et du Chocolat (JNCC) was “The best for our producers – No producers, no cocoa”.
9th edition focuses on the well-being of cocoa farmers
A highly evocative theme, focusing on the producer, his working conditions and quality of life. A theme totally in line with INADES-Formation Côte d’Ivoire’s advocacy of decent incomes for cocoa farmers.
INADES-Formation Côte d’Ivoire and its partners, members of the Ivorian platform for sustainable cocoa, have defended the rights of cocoa farmers. These hard-working producers are unfortunately the last to benefit from the sector’s financial spin-offs. In presenting its project to strengthen civil society for the sustainability and good governance of the cocoa sector in Côte d’Ivoire, the consortium called for, among other things, active participation by cocoa farmers in setting international cocoa prices.
Cocoa and sovereignty food, a tasty and energetic combination
The General Secretariat took the opportunity to promote the consumption of sovereignty foods (local foods: fonio – sorghum – millet) and cocoa.
A number of dishes and beverages based on sovereignty foodstuffs, topped with cocoa powder or on toast, were offered for tasting: millet bread, sorghum bread, sorghum sandwich bread, chocolate millet cake, chocolate millet and sorghum porridge, chocolate rice soufflé, fonio pizza, etc.
These dishes and beverages based on local cereals are offered to encourage people to eat more of them, given their rich nutritional content and their adaptation to local climates.
Visitors were briefed on the issues surrounding the consumption of sovereignty foodstuffs, and invited to be imaginative and daring in the creation of recipes.
Visitors who stopped by the INADES-Formation stand left delighted by these dishes and beverages that are good for the taste buds and good for the health!
Vivres les vivres de souveraineté! Cocoa could be one of them!
Marcelle Achi MOROH – Service communication Secrétariat Général
Our JNCC 2024 photo album
