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Sébastien Balmisse
Programs and Quality Manager
Kaoka
Private Sector & Development author
Following an international career where he was involved in rural development projects, Sébastien Balmisse first encountered Kaoka in 2010 in Sao Tomé, while he was working on a project to revive agricultural sectors supported by Agence Française de Développement (AFD). He has been coordinating Kaoka’s cocoa programs since 2013.
Kaoka
Since it was set up in 1993 by André Deberdt, a pioneer in organic farming in France, Kaoka has exclusively marketed organic and fair trade products. The company’s economic model is based on developing sectors and establishing close partnerships with cocoa producers, meaning it can observe on-site with the producers the effects of climate change and the deterioration of their environment.