Mondelēz International
Mondelēz International is dedicated to empowering people to snack right. Their mission is to lead the future of snacking globally by delivering the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. This commitment focuses on offering a diverse range of delicious, high-quality snacks that enhance life’s moments, while using sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about.
Mondelēz International Cocoa Life aims to have 100% of its member farms mapped for deforestation assessments and compliance with its transparency standards.
Farmer data in Ghana is difficult to collect and consolidate due to the sheer number of farmers working across the country, often in remote areas with low network coverage. As a result, Cocoa Life, Mondelēz International’s cocoa sustainability program, had received flawed and hard-to-use data from other suppliers in the past.
Mondelēz chooses us again because of the assurance of receiving compliant, high-quality data.
Mondelez Cocoa Life chooses Meridia as their go-to party for reliable smallholder land mapping in their program. We have so far completed two large mapping projects for Mondelez.
In 2019, we mapped all 47,000 farms in just eleven months. In 2022, we returned to map all new farmland under the Cocoa Life program across all twelve unions, making up about 16,500 farms. Mondelēz chooses us again because of the assurance of receiving compliant, high-quality data.
The quality of the maps Meridia produced is very good. It’s one of the clearest data sets I have seen, and I have touched upon many organisations in my career.