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Expand Value Addition To Ghana’s Cocoa Beyond The Idea Of Chocolate
Ghana’s main upgrading strategy in the cocoa sector has been to maintain quality while struggling with cocoa processing and manufacturing of chocolate.
Previous governments of Ghana have attempted to process cocoa into various products,…
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EU Regulation: Big Chocolate Revenge On Ghana And Côte d’Ivoire Cocoa LID?
The ambience of chitchats fills an Accra hotel seminar hall as attendees exchange pleasantries while networking. Others make their way out for the cocoa break.
It's the end of the opening session of the COCOBOD AfCFTA Committee's meeting…
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Is Fairtrade A Certification Organisation Or A “Fair Trade” Advocate?
So, on the 6th of July 2020 and on the 29th of March 2021, I published an article titled “Is Fairtrade Fair to Cocoa Farmers?” in The Cocoa Post, Ghana Talks Business and Business and Financial Times.
Fairtrade Africa did the dutiful,…
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Empowered Women Lead the Fight Against Child Labour
Meet Stella Anokye, a middle-aged cocoa farmer who owns a five-acre plot in Wamase, Ghana’s Ashanti Region. Stella is an anti-child labour champion and leads the Nyame Ne Yen Boafo (“God is our helper”) village savings group.
Prior to…
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Is There Any Link – Increased Local Value Addition And Cocoa Farmers’ Income?
Anytime, the topics of low income and worsening livelihood of cocoa farmers are raised in Ghana, people mistakenly assume Ghana to be the cocoa farmer and thus they argue that Ghana needs to add value to its cocoa beans to improve its…
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How Cocoa Growers In Western Ghana Serve Chocolates Yet Live Without Basic Amenities
Scores of cocoa-growing communities in the Sefwi Akontombra District of the Western North region of Ghana are in dire need of basic life necessities, most especially potable water supply.
Communities like Krobomanhyia, Akwasiaha, Aboduam,…
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Campaigner Uses Toblerone To Press For Release Of Abducted Nigerian Teenager
US author and humanitarian, Reno Omokri, has continued his campaign for the release of abducted Nigerian teenager Leah Sharibu in creating personalised Toblerone chocolate bars carrying her name to raise the profile of her case, Neil…
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Low Income, The Major Challenge Of Ghanaian Cocoa Farmers – NOT Demographics
In my previous article on how much Cocoa Farmers earn and why we need to announce a Cocoa Emergency, we realised that household members of cocoa farmers individually lived on a daily income as low as US$0.17 / day when cultivating a…
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Hand Pollination – How Ghana Is Increasing Cocoa Productivity While Saving Forests
Ghana's cocoa sector is recovering steadily from the triple-headed problem of drought, disease and aged farms.
The challenge meant that in the past couple of years the second-largest cocoa producer nation in the world had struggled at…
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Cash Transactions Totalling $1.2 Billion Still Occur In Ghana’s Cocoa Sector
Samuel has been a cocoa farmer for 12 years. Since the end of the Akuafo cheque system, he had always been paid in cash for his cocoa, until last season.
That was when the licensed buying company (LBC) that he sells to introduced a new…
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