Fly Over the Grass #007 Marika van Santvoort on improving cocoa supply chains as a social entrepreneur Fly Over The Grass

Marika van Santvoort is a consultant and social entrepreneur from the Netherlands specialising in cocoa, the raw ingredient of chocolate. Whilst working in conflict resolution in post conflict communities, Marika found herself working with cocoa farmers in Cameroon (West Africa). She noticed how the complexity and opaqueness of cocoa supply chains leaves cocoa farmers unfairly treated. This experience began her career and life’s mission to shorten and improve supply chains between cocoa...