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Cocoa and coffee farmers facing trade chaos as Brussels pushes deforestation crackdown

Smallholders to be hit hardest as EU and ‘Big Chocolate’ resolve to impose new traceability rules next year

Africa’s cocoa and coffee farmers are stepping up pressure on the European Commission to postpone its anti-deforestation law due to come into force next year. They are calling for another year’s delay. It is the latest clash between the European Union’s pro-environmental policies – protecting rain forests and carbon sinks and discouraging new fossil fuel exploitation – against the urgent imperatives of developing economies.

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