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The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has raised critical concerns about the implementation of the new EU Regulations on Deforestation and its cost ramifications to farmers and producing countries. The new EU…
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A deputy Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), Dr Emmanuel Opoku has disclosed that 1,239,169 individual cocoa farms covering a total area of 1,380,566 hectares have been captured onto the country's Cocoa Management System (CMS).…
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The Council of the European Union has given its final approval for its Deforestation Regulation aimed at reducing deforestation associated with key EU market imports. The regulation is targeted at cocoa, palm oil, cattle, wood, coffee,…
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Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen-Aidoo, has reiterated his call on the European Union (EU) to reconsider the element of cocoa pricing in its Due Diligence legislation. According to him, the legislation in its…
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A Position Paper by Cocoa Post The European Commission in November 2021, tabled a proposed legislation before the EU parliament that will enforce regulation on certain imported products on its market deemed to be associated with…
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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 group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have called on the European Commission to "rapidly engage in formal negotiations" with Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire towards the establishment of an Economic Pact on Sustainable Cocoa. "The…
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The Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria (CFAN) says it is hoping to tap into Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire's $400 per tonne Living Income Differential (LID) to improve the livelihoods of its smallholder farmers. West African neighbours, Ghana…
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A whopping 1.56 million underage children allegedly continue to be caught up in child labour in cocoa farms and allied setups globally, despite earlier promises by cocoa and chocolate big players to fight the canker. According to the…
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When in 1997 the Parliament of Ghana passed the Timber Resources Management law (ACT 547), the spirit was to have legislation to ensure the utilisation of the natural resource in a sustainable manner. Section 19 of the Act prescribed the…
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