Sustainability

The Netherlands Embassy in Ghana has held the 2022 Orange Cocoa Day forum in Accra, bringing together key stakeholders to discuss topical issues in the sector. The second edition which came off October 3, 2022, was on the theme…
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Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) is set to begin the full-scale rollout of the Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme effective this month, October 2022. The Board Chairman of Cocobod, Peter Mac Manu, disclosed this at the 2022 Cocoa Day celebrations…
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The 62-year-old father of six says he has tasted real poverty producing cocoa and thus doesn't mind at this point cutting down "my own bona fide property" for galamsey money
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Barry Callebaut as part of its efforts to promote sustainable cocoa production has commenced a program intended to reward farmers who show a high level of commitment to supporting sustainable cocoa farming in Nigeria. Under the program,…
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A joint platform of Ghanaian and Ivorian Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and cocoa farmers has made a strong call for reforms in the international pricing mechanism for cocoa to guarantee a living income for farmers. The group has…
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Leading multi-national chocolate companies and key industry actors have assembled in Accra, the capital of Ghana, for crunch discussions bordering on cocoa trade at the instance of the Cote d'Ivoire Ghana Cocoa Initiative (CIGCI). A…
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Over 500 cocoa farmers in Ghana have been supported to obtain land rights documentation for their farms. This forms part of the Cocoa Household Income Diversification Project undertaken by Nyonkopa Cocoa Buying Ltd,  a member of the…
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Fairtrade Africa (FTA) has asserted at the 28th ARSO General Assembly in Yaoundé, Cameroon, that sustainability in supply chains has come to stay. FTA programme team leader of cocoa in Ghana, Abubakar Afful, has there launched a spirited…
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The European Union, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana and other cocoa sector stakeholders have agreed to step up work on making cocoa more sustainable. At a high-level event of the EU's sustainable cocoa initiative dubbed “Cocoa Talks”, the parties…
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A global cocoa and ingredients trading giant, ECOM, has published a fresh set of commitments and time-bound targets to drive forward its mission to grow a smarter future for cocoa. The Smarter Cocoa Charter is ECOM’s first-ever…
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