“New Ways of Cultivating Cocoa”
Comfort Owusuaa and Isaac Boafo are two cocoa farmers from Assin Bereku, in central Ghana. In this region, where cocoa… Read More
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“It’s Important to Restore the Forest to Cope with Climate Change”
Diagone remembers that when he was younger, there were many large trees on the plantation where his family farmed cocoa. Read More
A Landscape Approach to Supporting Sustainable Cocoa
Natural forests capture carbon dioxide, increase biodiversity, and improve soil quality, providing ecosystem services that entire communities benefit from. For Ghana’s 800,000 cocoa-farming households… Read More
“Fully Own My Trees, and Plant More of Them”
Portia Sani is a 32-year-old cocoa farmer from Sefwi Elluokrom in the Western North region of Ghana. She successfully manages… Read More
Golden Eggs: Better Income, Better Nutrition, Better Cocoa
Thirty-year-old Janet Awuku lives in Wuruyie, a community of 600 people in the Ashanti region of Ghana. A mother of… Read More
A River, a Refuge for Wildlife and Cocoa Farmers
In between Côte d’Ivoire’s Tai National Park and neighboring Grebo-Krahn National Park in Liberia, Ekra Yao Blaise and 76 other… Read More
“Budgeting and Crop Diversification are Life Changing”
Ardjouma Biago, a 52-year-old farmer, owns a one hectare cocoa plot in Koupella, Côte d’Ivoire, near Bouaflé. Ardjouma suffered from… Read More
“People Get Along Better”
In this village of Western Côte d’Ivoire, cocoa was considered a man’s crop even though women worked on the farms… Read More
“Planting Trees Will Bring Back the Forest”
Loggers and farmers have destroyed all the big trees in Western Côte d’Ivoire, where Lucas Kouassi Kouame, a 37-year-old cocoa… Read More
“Increasing Cocoa Yield with the Same Amount of Land is Possible”
Hamidu Isaka, 35, has always had a passion for supporting farmer livelihoods in Ghana. “I first volunteered with an agribusiness… Read More