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Climate & Environment is a category that focuses on natural conditions necessary for cocoa production.
It features content on the subject of forests, deforestation, environmental degradation, weather, climate change and interventions by industry stakeholders.
UK Steps Up Climate Change Adaptation Finance Support For Africa
The United Kingdom (UK) has announced an increase in its climate change adaptation financial support to the most vulnerable African countries that bear the brunt of climate change.
Speaking alongside African leaders at COP27 in the…
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Black Pod Outbreak Following Rains Could Dampen Ghana’s Harvest
A raging incidence of the black pod disease is threatening cocoa crop yield over large swathes of farms across cocoa-producing regions in Ghana.
The outbreak, farmers told Cocoa Post is spreading at an alarming rate exacerbated by heavy…
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Farmforce Introduces Software To Track Cocoa Deforestation
Farmforce in partnership with Fairtrade International has trained 400 members from 25 cooperatives in Cote d’Ivoire on how to use software, developed by Farmforce, to trace deforestation.
According to Chief Executive Officer of…
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Barry Callebaut Ghana Signs Deal To Increase Solar Power For Cocoa Processing
Barry Callebaut Ghana has partnered with Empower New Energy, a Norwegian solar investment company, to expand solar production at its manufacturing site in Tema.
The Barry Callebaut Group is the world’s leading manufacturer of chocolate…
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Green Republic Launches ‘Plant Your Age’ Campaign
The Green Republic Project, a non-governmental organisation, has launched the ‘Plant Your Age’ campaign as part of its vision to lead the teeming youth of Ghana to overcome the climate crisis by planting 20 million trees by 2028 as their…
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World Environment Day: 5 Ways We Can Help Save Rainforests And The World Every Day
Rainforests are crucial for the survival of the planet and life on Earth, they pull carbon dioxide out of the air and release oxygen, making the air we breathe cleaner.
Recent research has shown that forests do more than just store carbon,…
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African Cocoa Agroforestry Competition Launched In 3 Countries
The African Cocoa Platform (AfCoP) has unveiled a new competition seeking to promote agroforestry and other sustainable practices in cocoa farming.
Cocoa farmers from the three-member countries of the organisation, namely Ghana, Cameroon…
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Moves To Safeguard Ghana’s Cocoa Farms From Illegal Mining Underway
Cocoa farmers in Ghana risk impoverishment if urgent steps are not taken by the government to halt threats posed by illegal mining activities that are gradually destroying cocoa farms.
According to a new Cocobod study, about 11,000…
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African Cocoa Platform To Launch Cocoa Agroforestry Competition
Cocoa farmers in Ghana will for the first time have the opportunity to join their counterparts in Cote d'Ivoire and Cameroon in a new competition to promote cocoa agroforestry.
The winner gets to undertake a trip to Cameroon to study…
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Ghana Approves Landmark Policy To Curb Deforestation
When in 1997 the Parliament of Ghana passed the Timber Resources Management law (ACT 547), the spirit was to have legislation to ensure the utilisation of the natural resource in a sustainable manner.
Section 19 of the Act prescribed the…
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