Meet Stella Anokye, a middle-aged cocoa farmer who owns a five-acre plot in Wamase, Ghana’s Ashanti Region. Stella is an anti-child labor champion and leads the Nyame Ne Yen Boafo (“God is our helper”) village savings group. Prior to taking… Read More
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
Portia Sani is a 32-year-old cocoa farmer from Sefwi Elluokrom in the Western North region of Ghana. She successfully manages… Read More
Thirty-year-old Janet Awuku lives in Wuruyie, a community of 600 people in the Ashanti region of Ghana. A mother of… Read More
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
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
In this village of Western Côte d’Ivoire, cocoa was considered a man’s crop even though women worked on the farms… Read More
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
