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A year of transition, shaped by investments in the people, processes and data behind Touton’s trading and supply chains.

This year’s report reflects a new chapter for Touton. Its integration into Hartree and the appointment of a new executive management team strengthen the group’s capacity to develop its activities while preserving its identity and merchant culture. Amid volatile markets and pressure on financing and logistics, Touton continued to honour its commitments to producers and customers across its cocoa, coffee and ingredients supply chains.

Alongside this transition, the group reinforced quality management, supplier oversight and traceability, supporting risk management and readiness for the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). A more detailed carbon footprint now informs its decarbonisation roadmap towards 2035, while the first vanilla volumes produced under Touton’s PACT STANDARD in Madagascar reached the market. Across the three priorities of PACT - Positive Agri Culture by Touton, the group’s CSR strategy - the report also documents progress in child protection, access to education and finance, and support for farm management and income diversification.

Want to learn more? Read the full article and access the report here: https://touton.com/news/touton-publishes-2025-26-sustainability-performance-report

During the 2024–2025 reporting period, through its direct investments and programmes implemented on behalf of clients, Touton distributed nearly 640 000 multipurpose trees, supported more than 64 000 hectares of cocoa agroforestry and mapped close to 180 000 farms. More than 20 000 community members also participated in women’s empowerment projects and activities, including Village Savings and Loan Associations. The report provides an overview of the work carried out across the three CFI priorities: forest protection and restoration; sustainable cocoa production and farmers’ livelihoods; and community engagement and social inclusion.

 CFI TOUTON PROGRESS REPORT 2025 CIV & GH

Touton group’s Sustainability report 2024-2025

This year’s report reflects Touton’s determination to maintain stability in the face of turbulence. Building on the key learnings and progress of 2023–24, the group has consolidated its practices and reinforced its impact across cocoa, coffee, and ingredients supply chains. Despite severe market disruptions, Touton’s teams have consistently upheld their commitments to partners and clients.

Beyond market management, 2024–25 was a year of strategic reinforcement across operations, ensuring financial robustness through diversified financing sources, advancing its CSR strategy – the Positive Agri Culture by Touton – and scaling its own responsible sourcing PACT STANDARD.  The group also further progressed its climate strategy, while enhancing regulatory readiness (EUDR) through digital transformation, and achieved IFS Broker certification, making it one of the first global cocoa and spices traders to hold this distinction.

Want to learn more? Read the full article here and access the report here: https://touton.com/news/new-touton-sustainability-report-2024-25-released

This year’s report reflects continued progress in Touton’s journey toward sustainable and deforestation-free cocoa in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. With over 705,000 people reached, the report showcases key achievements and measurable progress. From large-scale landscape projects and natural composting pilots to grassroots groups protecting forests and improving financial access, it reflects our commitment to scaling practical, local solutions with lasting impact. 

Dive into the full report for key insights, case studies, and voices from the field. Read our blog post and full report — available in English, French,

 CFI TOUTON PROGRESS REPORT 2024 CIV & GH

Touton's  2023-24 Sustainability report highlights the group's resilience and continuous systems transformation.  The combination of our expertise as traders and supply chain managers allowed us to stay the course. Despite market turmoil, the group has remained focused on adapting its systems to support the sustainable transformation of tropical supply chains. In this report, we are proud to unveil :

• Our new Corporate social responsibility strategy:  PACT, the POSITIVE AGRI CULTURE by TOUTON 
• Our verified responsible sourcing instrument: PACT STANDARD
• Our Climate strategy and carbon emissions reduction pathway including our official commitment to GHG emissions reduction targets in line with climate science
• How we are getting ready for the European Union’s Zero Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)

Read the full article here and access the report: https://touton.com/news/new-touton-sustainability-report-2023-24-released

We are pleased to release our 4th Cocoa and Forests Initiative report, showcasing our progress in accelerating forest and ecosystem protection across Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. Through individual and collaborative efforts, we once again highlight our joint action with clients and partners on the three priorities of the Cocoa and Forests Initiative. By involving local cocoa communities as agroforestry 'influencers,' supporting women and youth in developing income-generating activities, and expanding our initiatives to address specific social issues, such as menstrual health, we have achieved significant advancements in ecosystem restoration and strengthened social and economic resilience. We invite you to read our Blog post and combined Cocoa and Forests Initiative Report for Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire 22-23 to gain further insights and perspectives from all stakeholders involved in this collaborative effort.

For more information read our blog post and full report (English): 

We are thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting project in Côte d'Ivoire aligning with our commitment to sustainable sourcing and climate transition! 

We have partnered with a local cooperative and LONO Côte d'Ivoire, an engineering company specialising in adding value to agricultural by-products. Together, we are looking to transform cocoa pods into organic fertiliser aiming to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions linked to cocoa production, while contributing to the economic and climate resilience of local communities. Particularly targeting the methane generated from the fermentation of cocoa pods’ heaps left to degrade on the land parcels.

English article              Article en français 

The 2022-23 Sustainability report highlights how we have chosen to draw on our core values and leverage our expertise as supply chain managers to face the complex realities of changing agrifood supply chains.    :

• CULTIVATING AUDACITY: By investing in research, partnerships, and startup-led solutions to support the climate and economic resilience of partner producers in cocoa, coffee, and ingredients. 
• INCREASING OUR AGILITY: By ensuring the efficient management of our supply chains and offering a level of service excellence to our customers, beyond compliance.
• GUARANTEEING INTEGRITY: By strengthening our governance structure and consolidating our compliance tools.

Read the full article here and access the report: https://touton.com/news/new-touton-sustainability-report-2022-23-released

Anchored into the reality of our complex operating environments, the report underlines our approach and illustrates our engagement to build sustainable value chains. It highlights the main priorities and indicators that will help guide and monitor the group’s overall Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). 

“To keep building the sustainable trust relationship with producers and clients, our CSR approach continues to focus on people. From producers to employees, we are nurturing and building on their expertise to champion exemplary business practices. We are strengthening our data systems and innovative sustainability programmes to better deliver on our Human Rights and United Nations engagements, as well as our due diligence expectations.” Joseph Larrose, Deputy Managing Director.

Read the full article here and access the report: https://touton.com/news/new-sustainability-report-2021-22-released-csr-approach

Touton Uganda, one of the country’s leading green coffee exporters, has become the first in all of East and Southern Africa to earn the Rainforest Alliance certification against their new 2020 standard. In this article, we explore the motivation and certification journey behind this milestone achievement toward building a sustainable supply chain in Kasese.

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Every year, we record progress, both individually and collectively with our clients and partners, on the three priorities of the Cocoa and Forest Initiative. Investments and efforts in mapping and deforestation risk assessments are strengthening forests' protection whilst cocoa communities’ engagement in agroforestry, tree planting, and training programmes is boosting ecosystem’s restoration. We invite you to read our 21-22 cocoa campaign progress reports for Ghana (English) and Cote D’Ivoire (Français) to gain further insights and perspectives from all those involved. From cocoa farmers to technical partners, forestry commissions, teachers, and child ambassadors...assess impact and engagement based on those voices from the field!     

• Cote d'Ivoire -  Français :
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• Ghana -  English:
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We are proud to release the 4^th edition of Touton’s Communication on Progress on the Ten Guiding Principles of the United Nations Global Compact. Building a more virtuous tropical agricultural supply means working together to strike the right balance for value creation across all actors, from farm to fork. Using the common objectives and language provided by the UN Sustainable Development Goals ensures our activities contribute to the global movement to address major challenges of poverty, climate change, or access to education.

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Touton is proud to co-invest with IDH and IKEA foundation for the Coffee Farmer Income Resilience Program in Uganda. Leveraging on our multicrop know-how and extensive trading capacities, Touton will engage 5000 smallholder coffee farmers - who also grow cocoa, vanilla, and birds ‘eye chilies - to foster diversification for income resilience and transition their farm systems towards regenerative agriculture.

Touton is constantly strengthening its capacity to build a sustainable cocoa supply chain that protects the forest. As active members of the Cocoa and Forests Initiative (CFI), our efforts are led jointly with our clients, public and private partners in producing countries, to protect tropical forests, boost sustainable agricultural production and improve communities’ engagement and livelihoods. For the second time, we are proud to publish our CFI Progress reports for Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, including key figures, updates on satellite mapping technology applications and testimonials from partner farmers.  

• Cote d'Ivoire -  Français :
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• Ghana -  English:
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Data collection is on! Since March 2021, data collection from Ugandan coffee producers is on-going in the Rwenzori region of Uganda. Our team of young enumerators from the coffee communities are now interviewing farmers with both quantitative and qualitative surveys about their current farming practices and revenues. Producers are positive and enthusiastic about the initiative and keen to benefit from the results to boost income diversification strategies. This new research partnership is still in the early stages, with only 20% of the surveys conducted, but we are already seeing promising insights emerge.

Led by Touton Uganda and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), with the support of the Sustainable Food Lab and USAID, the research partnership strives to find concrete diversification strategies to improve coffee farmers economic and climate resilience in Uganda. Since November 2020, the project team has been working to collect data that will help distinguish the most actionable on-farm income diversification strategies, based on the unique profiles and farming processes of Arabica coffee producers in Kasese district, Western Uganda. Read more.

Standing in solidarity with coffee planting communities in Honduras, Touton responded positively to the donation appeal launched by COAGRICSAL, Honduran coffee, cocoa, and pepper cooperative. Our financial donation is supporting our partner’s efforts on the ground to quickly relieve thousands of farmers from the devastating combined effect of Hurricanes Iota, Eta and COVID 19.  

Touton has been a trading partner of Cooperativa Agrícola Cafetalera San Antonio Limitada (COAGRICSAL) since 2015, offering coffee roasters the distinct quality of organic Honduran coffee beans, certified Fair For Life produced in the Copan region. On top of using modern technology and its own processing plant for the production and marketing of coffee, the certified cooperative is fully engaged in sustainable development and fair-trade processes. To learn more about latest relief developments and Coagricsal coffee, contact our coffee team in Bordeaux This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   

Building a deforestation free supply chain, right from the origins of our cocoa beans, is a key part of Touton’s sustainability approach. This can only be achieved through transparency and traceability of cocoa supply operations which is the rationale for publishing our Cocoa Cooperatives Sourcing Map for Ivory Coast. 

The map showcases the name, location, and number of farmers of the Ivorian cooperatives that Touton has sourced its cocoa beans from during the 2019-2020 crop season. The publication of our Tier 1 sourcing information is part of a global cocoa sector effort - from NGOs to Governments and industry players - to map cocoa activities against protected land and forest, in order to better understand and address deforestation issues.

Click here to access the map 

As a signatory to the Cocoa & Forests Initiative (CFI) Touton is implementing action plans in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana to protect and restore forests, to support sustainable production and farmer livelihoods and to promote social inclusion and community engagement.  

These initial action plans include an overview of activities that go beyond those that we implement on behalf of our clients.

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Our collective commitment to address deforestation and forest degradation in the cocoa sector is the first of its kind - we know that an effective solution for deforestation requires a cooperative, multi-stakeholder initiative.

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