Fairtrade Africa

The Ghana Agroforestry for Impact (GAIM) project has been launched in Goaso, Ahafo Region, to help improve the livelihoods and climate resilience of cocoa farmers. The 3-year project (2024-2026) is being implemented by Fairtrade Africa…
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Dynamic agroforestry is a sustainable form of land use that integrates different types of trees and crops. It promotes the production of numerous tree species alongside cocoa, unlike traditional cocoa farming, which frequently entails…
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Fairtrade International has updated its Cocoa Standard with a reinforced focus on human rights, the fight against deforestation, traceability, and living income. Confirming the development, the social justice organisation explained the…
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Fairtrade Africa has reviewed its impact across the continent through the use of Fairtrade premiums and other programmatic and project interventions. These programmatic and project interventions as well as the Fairtrade premium were…
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Fairtrade Africa (FTA) has asserted at the 28th ARSO General Assembly in Yaoundé, Cameroon, that sustainability in supply chains has come to stay. FTA programme team leader of cocoa in Ghana, Abubakar Afful, has there launched a spirited…
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With the enormous prospects and opportunities in the cocoa sector, constant conversations about its progress can never be enough. Although farmers may be doing their bit to enhance their lives, the bigger task lies at the doorsteps of…
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Social justice and sustainability label Fairtrade International has announced the appointment of Sandra Uwera as its new Global CEO. Uwera steps into the role following the departure of Dr. Nyagoy Nyong'o, who served as Interim Global…
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Fairtrade Africa has held a joint planning and review meeting with its partners to assess the progress of implementation of the West Africa Cocoa Programme (WACP). The meeting also afforded the certification organisation the opportunity…
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At the recently held Africa- EU Week celebration from the 14th to 18th February 2022, young Fairtrade producers were part of a series of side events organised by the youth on key thematics relating to integrated development on the African…
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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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