Some high-end chocolates carry the fair trade label from companies that work closely with farmers and support them. But they represent a small percentage of worldwide chocolate production. Now, with the participation of the United Nations Development Program, the FairChain Foundation based in Amsterdam has introduced the Other Bar, made with fine Ecuadorean chocolate, which sells for $2.99 for a package of two. Some of the profits are given back to the farmers. The bars are good quality, with 72 percent cacao for the dark, 50 percent for the milk. In each package there’s a blockchain token you can scan. Use it to make a donation to the farmers, save up four tokens to a buy a tree or get 25 cents off your next purchase.
The Other Bar, theother.bar.
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