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Building Transparent Trade on top of Fair Trade

Learn how Transparent trade builds on top of fair trade by focusing on farmgate price paid to smallholder cacao farmers!

5 min readAug 15, 2022

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Building Transparent Trade on top of Fair Trade

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Uncommon Cacao

Learn about Cacao Genetics!

Criollo, Trinitario, Amelonado, Forastero, Nacional, CCN51, ICS95… What does all this actually mean? We in the specialty cacao industry…

9 min readJan 8, 2021

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Learn about Cacao Genetics!

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Uncommon Cacao

Cacao Education Videos!

Learn about post-harvest processing and the quality control process.

2 min readAug 6, 2020

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Cacao Education Videos!

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Uncommon Cacao

Resources for Building an Anti-Racist Workplace in Cacao and Chocolate

While it is clear that we are just at the beginning of a long road ahead towards a more self-aware, equitable, and anti-racist chocolate…

3 min readJun 30, 2020

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Resources for Building an Anti-Racist Workplace in Cacao and Chocolate

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Uncommon Cacao

Formally Introducing ABOCFA

How does ABOCFA fit in the Uncommon Cacao supply chain?

8 min readMay 14, 2020

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Formally Introducing ABOCFA

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Uncommon Cacao

The 2018 Transparency Report

Every year since 2012, Uncommon Cacao has published a Transparency Report showing pricing data for our supply chain and sharing stories…

5 min readJul 19, 2019

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The 2018 Transparency Report

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Uncommon Cacao

A light overview of heavy metals — a cadmium story.

There’s been a lot of talk in the chocolate industry lately about Cadmium. Most of this has been sparked by the European Union’s…

8 min readMay 22, 2019

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A light overview of heavy metals — a cadmium story.

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Uncommon Cacao

What does Uncommon Cacao do?

by Emily Stone

7 min readMay 2, 2019

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What does Uncommon Cacao do?

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Uncommon Cacao

Removing Child Labor, Deforestation, and Poverty from the Cost of Chocolate

When you think about chocolate, what comes to mind? Maybe brownies, truffles, or thick hunks of dark chocolate. Do you know where…

6 min readApr 17, 2019

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Uncommon Cacao

Betta Belize in this origin!

Belize has just two highways, one running north-south and one running east-west. You can drive for miles any day of the week without…

4 min readApr 17, 2019

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Uncommon Cacao

Uncommon Cacao

We source quality cacao. We build authentic, long-term relationships across the supply chain to create stability and success for all.

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