Social Solver launches new innovation for cocoa production

Social Solver launches an innovation challenge to introduce sustainable energies in cocoa production. This engineering for sustainable development alliance, founded by the NGO Ayuda en Acción and the open innovation platform ennomotive, challenges engineers around the world to improve efficiency, quality and environmental sustainability in the cocoa drying process.

Social Solver was born to improve the quality of life of vulnerable communities through technology, and in 2021 has developed projects in Honduras and Mexico.

Social Solver Support to Rural Families

This new challenge aims to help rural families in the department of Nariño in Colombia where Ayuda en Acción works to strengthen and modernize their productive and industrial capacity. The profitability of the small cocoa parcels of these indigenous families is too low, so they lose competitiveness in the market and continue to live with very limited resources.

Currently, cocoa is dried in greenhouses and ovens that use fossil fuels, such as propane, which are expensive and environmentally damaging. Social Solver is looking for sustainable drying systems using renewable energy or biofuel available in the region.

Social Solver offers a prize of EUR 5,000 to the winner and the possibility to participate in the realization of a pilot project together with Ayuda en Acción in Colombia.