Fine skin-care products from local fruits, nuts, and botanicals. Helping farmers earn a living from licit crops, and encouraging collective decision-making.

Friends roastery is passionate about sourcing the finest free market , green coffee beans and roasting each bean to reveal its best qualities.

Author and broadcaster Carol Off reveals the fascinating and often horrifying stories behind our desire for all things chocolate.

Lowell J. Satre probes issues as compelling now as they were a century ago: globalization, corporate social responsibility, and devious diplomacy.

Teun van de Keuken files a legal complaint against himself after eating chocolate bars made from cocoa from plantations that practice slavery.

Tony's factory feels that the people in the cocoa fields deserve honest wages for their work. Tony's cocoa is harvested by people who receive just that.

Steven R. L. Millman has written letters to over 200 chocolate manufacturers to find out who is making sure their chocolate has no slavery involved.

Slavery is officially banned internationally by all countries, yet despite this, in the world today there are more slaves now than ever before in history.

Lutheran World Relief invests in Divine Chocolate, the first farmer-owned chocolate brand in the world partnering with the Kuapa Kokoo farmers co-op.

www.theobroma-cacao.de

Here you will Find information about cocao and chocolate. From Arne Homborg, the  chocolate man.

www.sweetsculptures.at

An introduction to the unlimited horizon of edible materials for artistic sculpture. learn about Gerhard Petzl's techniques for creating art with chocolate.

www.nationalgeographic.com

The Maya may have been using chocolate as far back as 2,600 years ago, pushing back the earliest evidence of cacao use more than 1,000 years.

www.chocart.co.uk

Sue and Taeke Oosterwoud share their passion for chocolate through unique chocolate creations and chocolate sculptures.

www.culinart.net

A web site devoted to the art of tallow sculpting which lends dramatic elegance to any food display whether on buffets, dessert carts or in competitions.

www.rainforest-alliance.org

To protect ecosystems and the people and wildlife that depend on them by transforming land-use practice, business practice and consumer behavior.

www.antislavery.org

Anti-Slavery International is the world's oldest international human rights organization and deals with the issue of forced labor in the cocoa industry.

www.fairtradefederation.com

The Fair Trade Federation is an association of members who are committed to providing fair wages and employment to  people worldwide.

www.fairtrade.org

The objective of Fairtrade is to access to markets in developed countries for producers who tend to be marginalized by conventional trading structures.

www.globalexchange.org

A membership-based international human rights organization promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world.