{"id":202945,"date":"2025-07-21T15:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-nears-full-cocoa-traceability-as-eu-deadline-looms-but-risks-remain\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:20:49","slug":"cameroon-nears-full-cocoa-traceability-as-eu-deadline-looms-but-risks-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-nears-full-cocoa-traceability-as-eu-deadline-looms-but-risks-remain\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon Nears Full Cocoa Traceability As EU Deadline Looms, but Risks Remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><em> Yaounde &#8211; Cameroon has announced that 99% of its cocoa can now be traced from individual farm plots to the export port &#8211; a significant step towards meeting new European Union sustainability requirements. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Accoridng to the minister of trade, Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana, who chaired a forum in Yaound\u00e9 assessing the country&#8217;s readiness for the European Union&#8217;s Deforestation Regulation (<a href=\"https:\/\/environment.ec.europa.eu\/topics\/forests\/deforestation\/regulation-deforestation-free-products_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EUDR<\/a>), which comes into effect on 30 December 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The EUDR will ban the import of key commodities &#8211; such as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507210357.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yaounde &#8211; Cameroon has announced that 99% of its cocoa can now be traced from individual farm plots to the export port &#8211; a significant step towards meeting new European Union sustainability requirements. Accoridng to the minister of trade, Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana, who chaired a forum in Yaound\u00e9 assessing the country&#8217;s readiness for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,3029,9451,10170,12647,6145,257,5153,7349,254,31866],"class_list":["post-202945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cocoa","tag-deadline","tag-full","tag-looms","tag-nears","tag-news","tag-remain","tag-risks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traceability"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}