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Climate & Environment
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.
Ghana Eyes Investment To Scale Up Successful Cocoa Farm Irrigation Pilot Programme
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has appealed to stakeholders in the cocoa sector, particularly financial institutions and international non-governmental organisations, for support to upscale cocoa farm irrigation.
The COCOBOD piloted the…
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Dutch Ambassador To Ghana Calls For Irrigated Cocoa Farms
Cocoa production in Ghana can see a significant increase if more investment is made in irrigating cocoa farms.
This means, the cash crop will not only be harvested all year round but increase production between four to five folds for…
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Fears As Chief Plans To Destroy Ghana Cocoa Farms
Thousands of smallholder cocoa farmers in the Wassa Amenfi East Municipality of the Western Region of Ghana say they risk losing their farms in the coming weeks, as their landlord pushes through his plan to chop down all cocoa trees to…
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Deforestation Still At Record High 4 Years After Cocoa & Forests Initiative
A new study by environment rights group Mighty Earth and its global partners claims cocoa production is still driving the destruction of forests in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
The alarming findings from the world's top two cocoa-producing…
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Rainforest Alliance Launches Forest Watcher Mobile App To Monitor Deforestation
As part of its efforts to help address challenges hampering the cocoa and forestry sectors in the country, Rainforest Alliance has taken another prudent step by introducing the Forest Watcher Mobile App in the Sui River landscape in the…
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Study Warns Fairtrade Farmers Increasingly Threatened by Climate Change
A new Fairtrade study has revealed that the intensifying impacts of climate change pose a serious risk to global agricultural production and directly threaten the livelihoods of millions of Fairtrade farmers around the world.
The study…
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COP26: Time To Invest in Nature-Based Solutions And Climate-Smart Agriculture
Rainforest Alliance has called for investment into Nature-Based Solutions and Climate-Smart Agriculture ahead of the opening of the UNFCCC COP26 climate summit taking place in Glasgow, Scotland, from Oct. 31 - Nov. 12, 2021.
The Alliance…
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There Is No Climate Justice Without Fair Trade
The international community must confront trade injustice, enforce transparency and accountability in supply chains, and secure climate financing mechanisms, living incomes and wages for the world’s smallholder agricultural producers,…
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Fair Trade Ghana Network Sensitises Farmers On Climate Smart Agriculture
According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), eighty percent of the farmland in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia is managed by smallholder farmers, who are estimated to produce a third of the world's food supply.
Research also shows…
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Microsoft, Rabobank Project Reward Climate Smart Farmers With Cash
Pro-climate Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have teamed up with Microsoft and Rabobank to implement a series of pilot projects offering financial incentives for farmers adopting climate-smart practices and switching their farms to…
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