Dark chocolate with
coffee nibs
(Cocoa 51%)
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Dark chocolate with
Earl Grey tea nibs
(Cocoa 51%)
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Milk chocolate
(Cocoa 36 %)
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This gourmet quality dark chocolate will enchant you with its subtile espresso coffee flavour. An unforgettable taste !
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A delicious and unexpected marriage! Our dark choclate is enhanced by organic tea leaves from Sri Lanka.
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Children (and adults) will enjoy this chocolate.
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Organic Bittersweet Chocolate
(Cocoa 70%)
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Organic Candied Orange Peel Dark Chocolate
(Cocoa 57%)
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Organic Milk Chocolate
(Cocoa 34%)
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A chocolate for the connoisseurs. You will find the real taste of 100% natural cocoa. An exceptional mix of bitter cocoa from Bolivia and sweet cocoa from the Dominican Republic.
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A real success! Since it’s introduction, this chocolate charms everyone.
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This swiss made chocolate will delight small and big with it’s light touch of hazelnut.
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Hot Chocolate
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Hot Chocolate
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Dark Chocolate Covered Coffee Beans
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The ideal and most delicious present! A perfect mix: each bean has been roasted Black for more character and is then coated with an extraordinary Belgian made dark chocolate 51% cocoa.
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Easter Bunny
Milk Chocolate
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Santa Claus
Milk or Dark Chocolate
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Valentine Heart Chocolates
(4 hearts/box)
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These delicious bunnies make perfect gift for kids. By choosing Equita’s Fair Trade bunnies you contribute to the elimination of child slavery conditions in cocoa plantations.
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The perfect Christmas chocolate! Offer your friends and family a little treat and contribute to social and economic development in producer co-ops in Western Africa.
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There is no sweeter way to show you love someone!
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Cocoa and Chocolate
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Cocoa Facts
* Cocoa pods are about the size of footballs and contain pulp and
moist white cocoa beans which are dried, roasted, and shelled.
The beans often go through alkalization to improve colouring
and flavour, and are then reduced to a cocoa liquor, which can
be pressed to make cocoa butter, cocoa powder, or mixed with
other ingredients to become chocolate.
* The trees develop slowly, taking as long as 10 years to achieve
maximum yield.
* It takes a full annual harvest from one cocoa tree to produce
one tin of baking cocoa
* Cocoa beans were first consumed by the Olmec people of
Mexico (circa 1000 BC) and later cultivated by the Maya.
* Canadians consume an average of 5.5 kg of chocolate per
person each year
* 90% of the world’s cocoa is grown on small family farms of
12 acres or less
Source : TransFair Canada
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The Equita Difference
Quality:
The Equita chocolates are quality products whose texture and taste will please the best of the chocolate connoisseurs. A sophisticated blend between the finest cocoas and whole cane sugar, the Equita chocolates are pure natural products, without artificial additives or flavours.
Fair:
Social:
Green:
Did you know that…?
- Each Canadian eats an average of 6,7 kg of
chocolate per year.
- 90 % of the worldwide production of cocoa comes
from little family farms of 12 acres or less.
- Fair trade cocoa is produced by cooperatives
gathering almost 42 000 producers in 8 countries.
- Fair trade principles advocate durable agricultural
techniques.
- For a lot of families, fair trade makes the difference
between being able to send kids to school or
sending them to work in the fields. Hundreds of
thousands of children are currently working
in staggering conditions denounced by Unicef.
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A Fair Price!
More than 30 developing world economies rely on the cocoa industry with 14 million people world-wide directly involved in cocoa production. Farmers are often paid prices for their cocoa which don’t cover the costs of production or provide a sustainable livelihood. Lack of market access and affordable credit drives cocoa farmers to sell to middlemen where they may receive a fraction of the value of their harvest. Child labour on cocoa farms has been an important issue, particularly in Ivory Coast where forced labour of children has been documented.
(Source : TransFair Canada)
Equita pays the producer organisations :
- The Fair Trade guaranteed minimum price of 1 600 $ US per tonne which covers the costs of
production. If the market price is higher than the Fair Trade minimum price, then Equita pays
the market price. Important : the minimum guaranteed Fair Trade price is paid directly to the
producer coop. By comparison, for non-Fair Trade cocoa, it is estimated by the Food and
Agriculture Organisation that small producers perceive only half of the world market price.
- A Fair Trade premium of 150 $ US per tonne which producers must invest in development and
community projects
- An extra “organic premium” of 200 $ US per tonne for it’s organic certified cocoa.
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The Producers’ CO-OPs
KUAPA KOKOO:
Kuapa Kokoo (KK), a pioneering cocoa cooperative, is a model for the expansion of Fair Trade. Established in 1993, Kuapa Kokoo is Ghana’s only cocoa producers organisation owned by the farmers themselves. Today, the co-op has a membership of 48 854 farmers in 937 villages. The output of the cooperative represents 8% of total world sales of cocoa.
The difference between the world market price and the Fair Trade minimum price, contributed for US$ 1million extra income to Kuapa Kokoo farmers in the period 1993–2001. On top of this, thanks to the Fair Trade premium, the co-op has been able to invest in important community projects:
- 174 drinking water wells were dug thus improving health conditions and reducing the physical
burden on women
- 5 schools, 2 places of convenience, 27 corn mills and 1 bridge have been built
- An ambulant medical clinic visits each KK village once a year. Over 100 000 people, both
members and non-members, have received free medical attention.
- In 2001 -2002, 13 000 CAN$ were spent on producers education.
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"Before Kuapa Kokoo and Fair Trade we growers were cheated. People cheated us when they weighed the cocoa. We got little money for our cocoa. The growers' welfare was neglected. Fair Trade deserves its name because it is fair. We would like more cocoa to be sold to Fairtrade because it means a better price for the producer. Before joining Kuapa I never had a voice. Now, we meet every 2 weeks to share our problems and we are all involved in deciding how our Fair Trade premium is spent. "
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