Forest

Partners in the global cocoa industry, have accepted the proposed Floor Price by Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire of $2,600 per tonne. This pricing is expected to come into effect from the main growing season of 2020 to 2021. The deal, therefore,…
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The last piece of chocolate you ate likely had its roots in West Africa, where two-thirds of cocoa beans are produced. Respectively, Ghana and the Ivory Coast account for roughly 19 and 45 percent of this production, according to data from…
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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…
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The Asante-Akim South Municipal Assembly of Ghana's Ashanti Region has distributed 150,000 hybrid cocoa seedlings to farmers in its bid to increase yield and improve the livelihoods of cocoa farmers in the Municipality. The exercise, which…
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The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has assured the $400 Living Income Differential introduced jointly with Ivory Coast on cocoa is not a surcharge. "We will like to correct the misrepresentation of the…
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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…
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