Sustainability

COCOBOD in its quest to reduce drudgery and introduce modern practices in cocoa farming has out-doored motorized pruners and slashers for weeding and pruning in cocoa farms across the country. Mr. Joseph Boahen Aidoo, Chief Executive of…
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Illegal mining is seriously hurting investments made by the Ghana Cocoa Board in cocoa production across the country. This is because cocoa farmers who have received various productivity enhancement programmes being implemented by…
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Long-term sustainability for the cocoa sector is a major challenge. But rather than relying solely on price premiums, the solution is to think bigger, and admit the industry itself needs serious reform on the ground, argue Peter Stanbury…
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Global confectionery brand Mondelēz International has renewed its commitment to reduce environmental impact and drive sustainable growth at scale, by joining the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The scheme aims to set greenhouse…
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The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is optimistic about producing one million tonnes of cocoa for the 2020/2021 cocoa crop season. According to its Chief Executive, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, the introduction of the Living Income Differential (LID)…
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Fairtrade Africa is holding its first Joint Review and Planning meeting on the West Africa Cocoa Programme (WACP) for the year with Cocoa producers and allied partners in Ghana. The session has been underway in Ghana's garden city of…
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The Managing Director of Ghana's Cocoa Marketing Company, Vincent Okyere Akomeah has disclosed Ghana and Ivory Coast will from October 1 this year begin paying the Living Income Differential (LID) to cocoa farmers. The LID an amount of…
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Global food corporation - Cargill - says it is injecting more than US$113 million into expanding its cocoa processing sites in Ivory Coast and Ghana. According to Cargill, an American cocoa processing multinational, $100 million out of…
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Giving up cocoa farms to galamsey operators for their mining activities will negatively affect the Ghana Cocoa Board’s (COCOBOD) capacity to continue its development projects in cocoa farming communities, says the Chief Executive of…
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