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The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI), the Government of Ghana, and other global partners have launched a ground-breaking initiative to eliminate child labour in African supply chains. The intervention, dubbed "Accelerating Together…
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Ghana's Cocobod will use part of a $200 million World Bank loan to rehabilitate plantations destroyed by the cocoa swollen shoot virus, which causes drops in yields and kills trees, the regulator's deputy Chief Executive in charge of…
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The World Bank in January announced that Ghana has through the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) earned $4,862,280 for its contribution to reducing 972,456 tonnes of carbon emissions for the first monitoring period…
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Ghana has become the second country in Africa, after Mozambique, to cash out on carbon credits for successfully reducing greenhouse emissions. The country, in January this year, was paid a total of $4.8 million by the World Bank's Forest…
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The World Bank says the Ivorian economy is in good shape but the government there must adapt and make changes in the cocoa sector. The Ivorian economy has remained buoyant since the start of the year, posting one of the fastest growth…
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