Chocolate. The mere mention of the word is enough to bring a smile to your face. And regardless whether you’re a fan of smooth, deep, dark 70 per cent, or you like it sweet and creamy, these days, chocolate made using ethically sourced cocoa is just as important as the taste.

Enter Green & Black’s. For more than 25 years the chocolate giant has been known for inventive flavour combinations and leads the industry in sustainable cocoa farming.

So when Green & Black’s Smooth range hit Australian shelves earlier this year, it created quite the buzz in the office. Its rich, glossy 70 per cent dark chocolate is paired with drool-worthy combinations (we’re talking orange and almond, and salted caramel). And the fact that the beans used are from Ghana in West Africa and sourced through Cocoa Life only sweetened the deal and made us want to know more.

Cocoa Life is a global cocoa sustainability program that, by 2022, is set to empower 200,000 cocoa farmers and reach one million community members in key cocoa growing regions: Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Indonesia, the Dominican Republic, India and Brazil.

Through Cocoa Life, Green & Black’s partners with NGOs including Fairtrade, Save the Children and World Vision in communities that grow and supply cocoa to deliver social and environmental change. This means training for farmers, improving agricultural practices and investing in what communities identify they need, such as access to clean water, education or medical services.

Initiatives like these have always been at the heart of Green & Black’s – a company whose London-based founders, Craig Sams and Jo Fairley, were committed to creating chocolate that not only appealed to people’s tastebuds, but to their consciences as well.

Green & Black’s decadent chocolate, along with its championing of ethically sourced beans and social initiatives that drive change in the industry is what sets the company apart. The company’s name symbolises the high principles it holds – Green is for the commitment to ethically sourced cocoa and Black refers to the high quality and distinctive rich taste of the chocolate.

In every bite of Green & Black’s bars there’s the promise and delivery of a world where chocolate farmers are celebrated for their toil and their dedication to the humble cacao bean. And that may be the sweetest thing of all.