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Cocoa OPEC Now Set to Admit New Members
The Cote d'Ivoire-Ghana Cocoa Initiative (CIGCI) has adopted new guidelines signalling its readiness to admit new members to the organisation initiated to advance the interests of cocoa farmers.
The Board of CIGCI, made up of the world's…
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Global Cashew Demand Driving Nature Loss in Ivory Coast
A new report by environment groups is said to reveal, for the first time, how increasing global demand for cashews has driven a rapid expansion of cashew orchards in Côte d'Ivoire, causing nature loss and threatening food security.
Côte…
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Farmers Applaud Livelihood Interventions by CAA and Ritter Sport
Farmer organisation Cocoa Abrabopa Association (CAA) is partnering with Alfred Ritter GmbH, a chocolate manufacturer of the Ritter Sport brand, to support its farmer groups in the Western South cocoa region with additional livelihood…
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Rainforest Alliance, Partners Help Tackle Poverty In Cocoa Communities
Rainforest Alliance, a non-governmental organisation, and its partners International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) and Solidaridad Ghana, with funding from NORAD, have supported beneficiaries resident in the following seven Ghanaian cocoa…
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Ghana Borrows $200m From Cocoa Traders As Syndicated Loan Delays
Ghana's Cocobod has borrowed between $150 million and $200 million from cocoa traders to finance bean purchases since the 2023/24 season opened, due to a delay in securing a bank loan, the regulator's public affairs manager said on Tuesday.…
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Afarinick Appoints Dr Solomon Arhin as Deputy MD
Afarinick Company Limited, Ghana's leading farm and forest management organisation, has announced the appointment of Dr. Solomon Arhin as Deputy Managing Director.
Dr. Arhin will deputise the Managing Director, Eliseus Opoku-Boamah, to…
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Rainforest Alliance Pushes for Partnerships to Achieve Sustainability Agenda
A day’s workshop has been organised in Kumasi, Ghana, by the Rainforest Alliance, an international non-profit organisation, for its partners and sustainability managers to introduce them to the new 2030 strategy of the organisation.
The…
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Living Income Must Be Included In EU Sustainability Directive
Civil society organisations and farmer groups are calling on European lawmakers to ensure the right to a living income and fair purchasing practices are enshrined in the Union's due diligence regulation (EUDR).
The advocacy group says it…
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Multinational Cocoa Buyers Refusing to Pay Current Market Prices
Ivory Coast's cocoa regulator has said it is struggling to sell cocoa export contracts for the 2024/25 season with multinational cocoa buying companies demanding lower prices, contrary to current market prices occasioned by the prevailing…
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