COCOA POST

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Cocoa Post wishes to announce the nominees for the third annual edition of its flagship industry excellence motivation initiative, Ghana Cocoa Awards. Seventy-eight entries were shortlisted for recognition out…
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A new Fairtrade study has revealed that the intensifying impacts of climate change pose a serious risk to global agricultural production and directly threaten the livelihoods of millions of Fairtrade farmers around the world. The study…
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Rainforest Alliance has called for investment into Nature-Based Solutions and Climate-Smart Agriculture ahead of the opening of the UNFCCC COP26 climate summit taking place in Glasgow, Scotland, from Oct. 31 - Nov. 12, 2021. The Alliance…
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Management of Cocoa Post, the organizers of Ghana Cocoa Awards scheme has entered into a partnership with the Business and Financial Times (B&FT) for this year’s cocoa awards. The event, which is slated for November 12, 2021, at …
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Ghana's cocoa regulator, Cocobod, has earmarked one percent of cocoa sold by cocoa farmers as counterpart funding for the country's newly launched Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme. The long-awaited welfare intervention for the Ghanaian cocoa…
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The maiden edition of Ghana Cocoa Summit is scheduled to take place in Accra on Friday 12 November 2021. The event, which forms part of the annual Ghana Cocoa Awards, is aimed at exploring agribusiness opportunities available in the…
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The National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) has called for a renewed commitment among stakeholders towards the attainment of food security in the country as Ghana joins the rest of the world to mark World Food Day. In a statement…
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In recent months, there has been continuous heavy rainfall across the country – with its accompanying challenges like flooding, breeding diseases and plant failure within the agriculture space – in which cocoa production is seriously…
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In the year 2020, Ghana and Ivory Coast leveraged their cocoa production dominance to capture some extra value; that is, the Living Income Differential (LID) levy that granted cocoa farmers $400 extra income for a metric ton of cocoa beans…
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Ghanaian-German social enterprise, fairafric Ghana, has unveiled the first of three exciting new flavours of its Made In Africa chocolate brand. The freshly released variant named 57% Baobab Moringa pays tribute to Ghana's independence…
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