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The Green Ghana Dream: COCOBOD planting more than 1.6 million trees in the 2020/2021 crop year

Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is planting over 1.6 million forest trees in the 2020/2021 cocoa crop year on cocoa farms across the country and...

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Galamsey destroys 20 acres of cocoa farms weekly

GAWU signals COCOBOD to act or miss 900,000 tonnes target Sefwi, Juaboso, Akotombra farms at big risk Forestry Commission, chiefs, district assemblies sit...

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Cocoa farmers in Ghana awarded seed capital to diversify their Incomes in Climate Smart Ventures

Nine Ghanaian cocoa farming unions have been awarded grants to invest in new climate-smart small businesses on behalf of their members, as part of...

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Cadbury Farmer Resilience Fund supports thousands of women

The new ‘Cadbury Farmer Resilience Fund’ designed to protect cocoa farmer livelihoods during the COVID-19 pandemic is providing grants that will empower thousands of...

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Do cocoa policies resolve the low-income constraints of farmers?

Cocoa is of critical importance to the Ghanaian economy, hence the effects of low income on farmers isn’t just seen as a threat to...

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Cocoa farmers eye sweet success from chocolate

There is a lot of money in chocolate but the producers of the raw material see very little of it. Last year the retail industry...

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Is Fairtrade fair to cocoa farmers?

For the past 30 years, we have seen acclaimed sustainable certification organisations, telling the whole world that there is a need to fight for...

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Will Ghana survive the trade war over cocoa exports?

Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has taken the boldest economic step in recent memory by announcing that Ghana will no longer export raw...

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Ghana-Côte d’Ivoire collaborate to stop extortion from cocoa farmers at the borders

Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire have agreed to form a joint committee and find a lasting solution for security challenges faced by cocoa farmers along...

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Cocoa360’s innovative means effectively battling COVID-19 pandemic in rural areas

With rising COVID-19 infection rates, a reintroduction of social restrictions and the ensuing socioeconomic toll on some of the most vulnerable people that has...

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ILO organizes capacity building on occupational safety in cocoa & small-scale mining

Random thoughts of a rural farmer (38): The politics of local cocoa pricing.

Bentsifi’s Vibe

Ghana Cooperative Cocoa Farmers’ and Marketing Association launched

Love, cocoa and innovation: The Sekoe Chocolates and KIC story

COCOBOD, GRA foil cocoa smuggling attempt at Togo border

Letshego holds educational session on cocoa and its benefits for students

The Green Ghana Dream: COCOBOD planting more than 1.6 million trees in the 2020/2021 crop year

Galamsey destroys 20 acres of cocoa farms weekly

Cocoa farmers in Ghana awarded seed capital to diversify their Incomes in Climate Smart Ventures

Cadbury Farmer Resilience Fund supports thousands of women

Do cocoa policies resolve the low-income constraints of farmers?

Cocoa farmers eye sweet success from chocolate

Is Fairtrade fair to cocoa farmers?

Will Ghana survive the trade war over cocoa exports?

Ghana-Côte d’Ivoire collaborate to stop extortion from cocoa farmers at the borders

Cocoa360’s innovative means effectively battling COVID-19 pandemic in rural areas