Browsing Tag

Climate change

Climate Change-Induced Heavy Rains Threaten Cocoa Production

Edward Adjei Frimpong Oct 13, 2021 0

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…
Read More...

Blog

There Is No Climate Justice Without Fair Trade

Fairtrade Africa Sep 27, 2021 0

The international community must confront trade injustice, enforce transparency and accountability in supply chains, and secure climate financing mechanisms, living incomes and wages for the world’s smallholder agricultural producers,…
Read More...

Climate & Environment

Microsoft, Rabobank Project Reward Climate Smart Farmers With Cash

Papisdaff A. Ali Jul 2, 2021 0

Pro-climate Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have teamed up with Microsoft and Rabobank to implement a series of pilot projects offering financial incentives for farmers adopting climate-smart practices and switching their farms to…
Read More...

Sustainability

Cocoa Farm Irrigation: Mondelez Leads Private Sector Response To Declining Cocoa Production

Kojo Hayford Mar 19, 2021 0

"Old and unproductive", that is how Francis Oko Lanquaye described his 4 and half-acre cocoa farm when he acquired it some years back. It is located at Otwebediedua, near Suhum in the Eastern Region, about 65 kilometres northwest of…
Read More...

Climate & Environment

Climate Change Threatens Cocoa Production

Writer Oct 2, 2020 0

Climate change and climate variability pose serious challenges to national development, especially agriculture – which is the backbone of the country’s economy. Climate change leads to increases in temperatures, changes in precipitation…
Read More...

Climate & Environment

Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Cargill Targets 30% Cut

Writer Dec 3, 2019 0

Cargill Inc. has renewed its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in its entire supply chain – from farm fields to fast food kitchens – by 30% per ton of product in the next decade. The commitment follows a contentious summer…
Read More...

News

Let’s Make Cocoa Sector Climate Resilient – President Akufo-Addo

Writer Oct 5, 2019 0

President Akufo Addo has charged the Forestry Commission and the Ghana Cocoa Board to ensure that they join forces through the Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ Programme to make the country's cocoa sector climate resilient. This call he made…
Read More...

Original Beans Launches New Eco Packaging

Writer Aug 2, 2019 0

Fine single origin chocolate bar brand, Original Beans, has relaunched its bars in new eco-friendly packaging. Each single origin bar artistically displays the animal that lives where the cocoa beans come from. A mountain gorilla from the…
Read More...

We Have to Bring the Digital Data Revolution to the Farmers Growing Coffee and Cocoa

Writer Jul 26, 2019 0

Rainforest Alliance’s Daan de Vries outlines how fourth-generation technologies are being harnessed across Africa, Asia and Latin America, and to make food production more sustainable and avoid deforestation We’re experiencing a digital and…
Read More...

Media Personnel Schooled on Cocoa and Forest Initiative in Ghana

Writer Jul 21, 2019 0

Media personnel on Thursday were trained on Cocoa and Forest Initiative (CFI), a programme being implemented by leading cocoa-producing countries and companies towards safeguarding forests. The CFI is a programme, which has seen the…
Read More...

Load More Posts

Climate change

Touton: Web Developer Low Code H/F

Touton: Web Developer Low Code H/F

Touton: Developer Junior Web Full Stacks H/F

Touton: Developer Senior Web Full Stacks H/F

Senior Treasury Officer – ECOM Ghana

Agronomy Officer – KOA

Crop Research Officer – KOA

Sourcing Zonal Officer – KOA

Raw Material Sourcing Manager – KOA

Quality Assurance Field Officer – KOA

Agricultural Programs Lead – KOA