Environment

Made in Ghana cocoa fruit beverage brand - Koa - has received key international recognition for its socially responsible business just five years after the establishment of its innovative cocoa fruit venture. The Swiss-Ghanaian…
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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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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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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 storing…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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