2019 European Cocoa Forum Lisbon

The European Cocoa Association held its seventh European Cocoa Forum on 17, 18 and 19 September 2019 at the Pestana Palace in Lisbon, Portugal.

This year’s edition, which welcomed more than 340 participants from across the cocoa value chain, covered a variety of compelling topics for the cocoa sector and beyond, and provided unique opportunities to interact with fellow cocoa colleagues.

The ECA team would like to express its most sincere thanks to all the guests who joined, including high-level officials from the main cocoa-producing countries, the European institutions, the research community, NGOs, and of course all our colleagues from the cocoa and chocolate industry in Europe.

We hope to see you all again at the next edition of the European Cocoa Forum in September 2022!

ECA Forum 2019 – Conference Programme

ECA Forum 2019 – Conference brochure

ECA Forum 2019 – Attendance List

ECA Forum 2019 – Speakers biographies

Live cartoons by Floris Oudshoorn

What they think about chocolate

The superiority of chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826; third President of the USA)
So noble a confession more than nectar & ambrosia, the true food of the gods

Dr Etienne Bachot(1610-1687; French physician)
Nowhere else has nature compressed such a store of the most valuable nutrient into such a small space as it has with the cocoa bean

Alexander Von Humboldt (1769-1859; German naturalist & traveler)
Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935; Portuguese poet)