Sustainability

A visit today to Dadieso, the capital of the Suaman District, in the Western North Region of Ghana, reveals a bustling community with tarred streets awash with people and Pragya tricycle taxis. But only two years back, this community,…
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The Ghana Civil-society Cocoa Platform (GCCP) has lauded Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) and Afarinick Company Limited for successfully addressing challenges that bedevilled implementation of the ongoing National Cocoa Rehabilitation…
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A hydra-headed challenge threatens to place a chokehold on Ghana’s cocoa production sector. Climate change, disease, moribund farms, overaged tree stock, an aged farmer population and an acute labour shortage are some of the notable…
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Federated Commodities Ltd (FEDCO) and partners, Storck and Walter Matter, have inaugurated a six-unit classroom block for Domeabra Primary School, near Asankragwa, in the Wassa Amenfi West Municipality of the Western Region. The…
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Federated Commodities Limited (FEDCO), a Ghanaian licensed cocoa buying company has presented a cheque for GHS16 million (about $1.4m) as a premium to certified cocoa farmers for the 2022/2023 crop season at Assin Foso in the Central…
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Starbucks Corporation, a global coffee and cocoa beverage retail chain, has come under renewed pressure from a global civil society coalition to come clean about where it sources the cocoa for its chocolate products. The Coalition,…
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The Cocoa Lead for UPL West & Central Africa, Hubert Ehouman, has shared insights about the company's contribution to the Cocoa and Forests Initiative 1.0 (CFI 1.0) and its strategies for executing ambitious targets in the Cocoa and…
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Irrigation in agriculture, and cocoa farming in particular, is a critical activity in several regions of the world. Most of the world's cocoa beans are produced by rain-fed agriculture which dictates the two production cycles in a year.…
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Cocoa Abrabopa Association (CAA), a Farmer Based Organization, has paid a total of GHC 9.2 million in premium to their farmers across the give cocoa growing regions in Ghana. The cash premium also known as the Sustainability Differential…
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A deputy Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), Dr Emmanuel Opoku has disclosed that 1,239,169 individual cocoa farms covering a total area of 1,380,566 hectares have been captured onto the country's Cocoa Management System (CMS).…
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