This year, as the world celebrates World Earth Day on the April 22, 2020, Fairtrade Africa highlights its stakeholder collaboration towards climate action. Environmental degradation and climate change in the last couple of decades have reached alarming levels and global action is urgently needed to mininise the impact on...
AngloGold Ashanti (Ghana) Limited has rolled out a series of interventions and campaigns in the Obuasi township as part of measures to combat the spread of the Coronavirus (CoVID-19). Among them are the deployment of the services of its malaria control subsidiary, AngloGold Ashanti Malaria Control (AGAMal) and its...
Cargill Ghana Limited, a subsidiary of Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, has provided food items to over 1,000 families in different communities in Tema and its environs where the company operates. The gesture was in fulfilment of the company’s pledge to support the vulnerable and less privileged to cope with...
Despite the growing threat of COVID-19 to virtually all aspects of business and the economy, the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has given the strongest assurance that its annual cocoa syndication loan facility will go ahead without any hitches.
Joseph Boahen Aidoo, CEO of COCOBOD, assured farmers and other industry stakeholders...
The use of child labour on cocoa farms in top producers Ivory Coast and Ghana has risen over the past decade despite industry promises to reduce it, according to a draft of a U.S. government-sponsored report seen by Reuters.
More than 2 million children worked in the sector last season...
Cocoa remains Ghana`s most important export crop representing nearly 40 percent of total exports. Due to its significant foreign exchange earnings, the Government of Ghana has set up the Ghana Cocoa Board under the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning to regulate the sector with the hope of ensuring...
Ghana’s forests require better care if cocoa farming is to be sustainable. Wikimedia Commons
Cocoa production has been the backbone of Ghana’s economy since the 1870s. It dominates the agricultural sector and contributes about 30% of the country’s export earnings. Cocoa employs about 800,000 farmers directly. It also supports the...
Cocoa sector says sustainability efforts have fallen short
Companies, governments, NGOs pledge joint action going forward
Chocolate companies, cocoa buyers should pay fair price
Origin countries must limit output, curb deforestation
Companies and governments have pledged to tackle poverty, deforestation and human rights abuses in the cocoa supply chain,...
Smaller crops, more demand pave way for balance in 2017/18
Cargill looking to expand origin processing, focus on Africa
Company to work with Ivory Coast on high-yield seed concerns
Cargill sees the cocoa market broadly balanced in the current 2017/18 season and is aiming to expand its processing capacity...
Nyonkopa Cocoa Buying Limited a subsidiary company of Barry Callebaut, the world leading manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products has paid a of GH¢ 8,839.993 as premium to farmers at separate durbars this year for sustainable cocoa production.
As a tradition of the Horizon program, all trained and certified...