President of the World Cocoa Foundation, Rick Scobey, is requesting Ghana’s award-winning rapper, Okyeame Kwame, to do a song for cocoa farmers on government’s decision to grant them ownership of valuable trees on their farms. Government on the UN International Day of Forests, announced that Ghanaian cocoa farmers, for the first time ever, have obtained … Read more
President of the World Cocoa Foundation, Rick Scobey, is requesting Ghana’s award-winning rapper, Okyeame Kwame, to do a song for cocoa farmers on government’s decision to grant them ownership of valuable trees on their farms. Government on the UN International Day of Forests, announced that Ghanaian cocoa farmers, for the first time ever, have obtained … Read more
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBD) on Thursday gave the assurance that it would contribute its quota towards reversing the degradation of the forest cover which currently stood at 3.2 per annum which translated into 700,000 hectares. Dr Yaw Adu-Ampomah, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of COCOBOD, made this known at the maiden Cocoa and Forests Initiative … Read more
A Tree Tenure Policy would soon roll-out to provide farmers the legal right to claim ownership of commercial trees planted on their farms and those that grow naturally, Mr Musah Abu-Juan, the Forestry Technical Director of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, has announced. The policy is one of the initiatives being championed by … Read more
Mr John Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources on Thursday expressed government’s commitment to institute measures to reverse the ascendancy of forest degradation to ensure sustainable cocoa production. He said the Government would adopt holistic and multifaceted approaches in collaboration with all relevant stakeholders to reduce the rate of deforestation. The Minister … Read more
The Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) has launched a project to treat and rehabilitate some 10,000 hectares of diseased and overage cocoa farms in the Western North and Eastern regions this year. The project will involve the removal of 11 million trees for replanting. Currently, about 17%of cocoa area, that is about 309,830.73 hectares, surveyed is … Read more
The world’s largest chocolate makers, including Nestlé, Mars and Mondelez, and cocoa traders, such as Cargill and Olam, have agreed to co-operate in ending deforestation in key cocoa growing areas, starting with the Ivory Coast and Ghana. The Twelve companies signed the agreement at a meeting hosted by Prince Charles in London on Thursday to … Read more
Twelve of the world’s leading cocoa and chocolate companies have promised to help Ghana address the issue of illegal mining known as galamsey which is destroying many forests. This was announced Friday at a meeting jointly held by the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF), IDH-the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH), and The Prince’s International Sustainability Unit (ISU) … Read more
Major chocolate makers, including Ferrero, Nestle and Mars, agreed Thursday a landmark initiative to tackle deforestation in top cocoa producers Ivory Coast and Ghana — a move hailed by Prince Charles. Twelve cocoa and chocolate companies agreed to “a statement of collective intent” committing them to work to end deforestation and forest degradation in the … Read more
Stroll along the Chicago River’s west bank on Chicago’s tony Near North Side and a sweet breeze will surely catch your attention. The smell is of chocolate. Amidst skyscrapers and $1 million condominiums, family-owned Blommer Chocolate Company, the largest cocoa processor in North America, is baking lots of it in its central factory. Most chocolate … Read more
As part of measures to improve the livelihoods of farmers in cocoa communities, Nestlé Ghana, with its Create Share Value (CSV), has partnered the International Cocoa Initiative and the World Cocoa Foundation to tackle the issue of child labour and improve cocoa farming. The project, christened the Nestlé Cocoa Plan, is aimed at improving the … Read more