Valentine’s Post from Ghana for all Chocolate Lovers
Dear chocolate lovers,
Happy Valentine's Day! I hope you spend this day with the people you love, enjoying delicious chocolates in between. My name is Leticia Yankey, a cocoa farmer from Ghana. I am writing this letter in…
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Issues Surrounding Importation of Cocoa Beans to Ghana: A Critical Look
A recently leaked official letter from the Ghana Cocoa Board, granting a request from the Afrotropic Cocoa Processing Company Limited to import cocoa beans into the country for processing, has led to some anxiety among stakeholders in the…
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Stop Exploiting Cocoa Farmers with Demand and Supply Chorus
A Ghanaian cocoa farmer, Issifu Issaka, has challenged chocolate companies to stop hiding under the demand and supply chorus and pay fair prices that assure cocoa farmers a living income.
Issaka decried the continuous lip service and…
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Cocoa Price to Hit New Records as Supply Deficit Protracts
Cocoa futures extended their surge to a record in New York as a shortfall gripped the market, threatening to make chocolate and other confectionery costlier.
Prices have doubled during the past year as growers in West Africa — who produce…
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Ghana Loses over 500,000 Hectares of Cocoa Farms to Swollen Shoot Disease
The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has revealed that over 500,000 hectares of cocoa farms in Ghana have been lost to the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD), posing a major threat to the country’s…
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Embrace Agricultural Cooperatives for Food Security and Economic Growth
The Board Chairman of the Ghana Cooperative Council, Dr Bernad Bingab, has encouraged African leaders to adopt the agricultural cooperatives model for improvements in both food security and economic development across the continent.…
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Solidaridad, Cooperatives Dept. to Empower Ghana cocoa farmers
Solidaridad, an international civil society organisation, has partnered with the Department of Co-operatives (DoC) in Ghana to facilitate the establishment of a robust regional and national cooperative association to increase the…
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Can Sugar-Free Chocolate Be Sweet?
During my MPhil project, I undertook a survey to understand people’s perceptions and knowledge about sugar-free chocolate in Accra.
One topic that kept coming up was "chocolate without added sugar, then it is not sweet." This prompted…
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Sustainable Cocoa Should Come from Farmers Earning a Living Income
This year, 2024, we are heading towards two major events in the cocoa sector, which will take stock of what has been achieved and what remains to be done to deliver sustainable cocoa at scale. The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) Partnership…
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Uproar As COCOBOD Approves 3500MT Cocoa Importation
A Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) letter approving the importation of cocoa beans has sparked an uproar in the world's second largest cocoa-producing country.
In the letter dated January 25, 2024, the management of COCOBOD authorises…
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