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.
This forms part of COCOBOD’s National Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme. The rehabilitation programme is to replace about 40% of the country's cocoa tree stock, which are either overage...
Government has directed the Forestry Commission not to issue forest entry permits for mining purposes until further notice.
The directive, according to the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, forms part of measures to regulate small-scale mining and to reduce adverse effects of the activities on the...
Issuing FLEGT licence, is key in the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) between Ghana and European Union (EU) with the goal to trade only in legal timber products.
In other words, timber products must be from a verifiable source that complies with sector regulations. This was a key deciding factor...
Chocolate is certainly not a “JJC” (Johnny Just Came) consumable in the world’s list of delicacies. Made from cocoa, chocolate has been around for about 5000 years, evolving through various civilizations and processing phases into a big time delectable industry (cultivation, processing and consumption) today, with a retail market...
Private sector actors in the oil palm value chain, when given the right knowledge and needed financial support, are able to influence policies that advance the development of the commodity in Ghana.
Over the few years, the oil palm sub-sector has grappled with the lack of a national standard for the...
With the setting-up of the Tree Crops Authority as part of government’s Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD) programme, it is noteworthy that one of the six earmarked tree crops under PERD - cashew - has been able to launch the Cashew Council of Ghana (CCG) to serve...
Contrary to high expectations of Stakeholders in Ghana’s forestry sector, the scheduled issuance of the country’s first Forest Law Environment Governance Trade (FLEGT) licences or Timber Legality Licences in December 2020 will not happen. This is because the country’s state of readiness for the licenses to be issued is...