Sustainability

Ghana's cocoa farmers pension scheme is said to commence operations by October 2021 with the onboarding of some 1.5 million farmers. The National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) says it has been working at the modalities for…
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A total of 15,600 female cocoa farmers in Ghana are to benefit from a £257,000 Cadbury Farmer Resilience Fund grant to set up a range of climate-smart small enterprises. The women are part of nine partner cocoa farmer cooperatives within…
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The Rainforest Alliance (RA), an international non-profit organization, has announced Santiago Gowland as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Gowland joins RA from The Nature Conservancy, where he served as Executive Vice President…
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167 farmers in the Abakoase Society of Fanteakwa Union in the Eastern Region of Ghana have received Fairtrade’s Living Income Reference Price Differential for the 2020/2021 cocoa season at a ceremony organised by the leadership of the…
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- Cocoa Abrabopa Association receives help to set up a Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System - Chocolate companies - Mars Wrigley, Sucden, ASCOT Amsterdam are funding the project - International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) providing…
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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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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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Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) in partnership with Fairtrade Africa has held a two-day training workshop for some staff of its Research Department on Fairtrade standards and sustainability. The training workshop sought to enhance the…
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Global snacking giant, Mondelēz International and Olam, a leading supplier of cocoa beans and cocoa ingredients, have teamed up to create a 2000-hectare sustainable commercial cocoa farm in Indonesia. The world's single largest commercial…
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The Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Ghana, Ghana’s Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations and COCOBOD, have held the first multi-stakeholder roundtable on sustainable cocoa in Accra. A statement issued by the three…
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