29 The Hershey Company | 2021 ESG Report Cocoa The Big Picture Our Company Cocoa Responsible Sourcing and Human Rights Environment Our People Youth Community About This Report Fighting Deforestation In cocoa-growing Farm Locations In addition, in Zégo, a town in Côte d’Ivoire’s Continuing Our regions in West Africa, and Deforestation Lôh-Djiboua region, CLAP provided members Landscape Programs of the village land management committee with deforestation and Throughout the past few years we funded technical training on the use of GPS devices to We continued our Kakum Agroforestry biodiversity loss are comprehensive mapping of cocoa farms in Côte record land rights, with a special focus on land- Landscape Program partnership in Ghana, d’Ivoire and Ghana where our suppliers source use contracts with tenants. Benefiting from which covers an area equivalent to 20 times a manifestation of a the cocoa volume used in Hershey products. fit-for-purpose technology, community members the size of Manhattan and includes the Kakum complex set of root causes The mapping provides a baseline deforestation can now record land rights locally and formalize National Park, an intact tropical rainforest rate through measuring annual tree cover owner-tenant agreements, something previously covering 145 square miles (375 square including poverty, the loss and closely monitoring farm locations for cost-prohibitive for these communities. kilometers) that is home to antelopes, elephants, absence of land titles, encroachment into protected forest areas. monkeys and a number of other endangered wildlife species. This partnership promotes a lack of clarity on land Securing Land Titles to Unlock and supports community-led landscape tenure arrangements, Land Value management, spreads climate-smart cocoa- growing practices and provides training for extra limited knowledge of good Without proper land titles, it is difficult for income-generating activities. agricultural practices and farmers to access financing or make necessary resource-challenged law changes on their farms to prevent deforestation, promote reforestation and apply agroforestry enforcement agencies. and climate-smart cocoa farming. Through our partnership with the USAID To stop deforestation in our supply chain, Integrated Land and Resource Governance Hershey is investing in helping farmers secure (ILRG) Project, we support communities in land titles where they farm, spreading climate- Ghana to clarify and document land rights as well positive farming methods and investing in as improve land-use planning practices through protecting the uniquely rich ecosystems where agroforestry. In 2021, our engagement with ILRG cocoa is produced in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. and one of our suppliers, ECOM, assisted 1,244 farmers in acquiring land title documentation. Since 2018, Hershey has publicly committed to In 2020, we co-launched with the German no new deforestation in our global cocoa supply Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), the chain and to implementing shade-grown cocoa Government of Côte d’Ivoire and other partners with agroforestry tree-planting programs. In the Côte d’Ivoire Land Partnership program 2021, Hershey supported the nationwide “1 Day, (CLAP) to promote affordable land titling as a 50 Million Trees” reforestation campaign led by catalyst for halting deforestation. Due to our the Ministry of Water Resources and Forests in intervention and design of relevant land tenure Côte d’Ivoire. documents that are government sanctioned and community accepted, this partnership was able to shorten the time of delivery and costs of securing land titles, greatly improving farmers’ access.