2024 Impact Awards winner: Nestlé Canada

Nestlé’s size and scale are key advantages in helping to transform the global food system.

That has meant tapping into its network of employees, farmers, retail customers, partners and consumers to create change through its brands. 

The Nestlé Cocoa Plan aims to build a more sustainable supply chain for cocoa by working with farmers, communities and local and international organizations to develop solutions to meet the challenges facing cocoa-farming communities. 

This plan now reaches more than 179,000 farmers, building on our three pillars: better farming, aiming to improve livelihoods in communities; better lives, aiming to improve social conditions for families; and better cocoa to improve sustainability. 

Nestlé is on track to source 100% of its cocoa through the Nestlé Cocoa Plan by 2025. It’s an issue Canadian shoppers care about. 

In 2023, Nestlé commissioned a survey that found 73% of participants agree they want to support farmers and communities in developing countries. 

Building on the Nestlé Cocoa Plan, the Income Accelerator Program aims to help reduce child labour risks and increase incomes for cocoa-farming families. 

It supports school enrollment, good agricultural practices, agroforestry activities and diversified incomes, and women empowerment. 

The program continues to progress, reaching about 160,000 cocoa-farming families in the company’s supply chain by 2030.