Tag: Deforestation in cocoa industry
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COCOBOD laments deforestation in cocoa sector
Deforestation is a major issue in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, which together produce nearly two-thirds of the world’s supply of cocoa. Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana respectively lost 25% and 8% of their primary forest between 2002 and 2019, with a significant portion of deforestation due to cocoa farming. The Ghana Cocoa Board has described this…
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Global advocacy group demands establishment of mechanism to check deforestation in cocoa sector
Right based campaign and advocacy organization, EcoCare Ghana, is asking chocolate companies, cocoa traders and the government to collaborate to establish a joint deforestation monitoring mechanism to check forest encroachment and illegal cocoa farming. This call comes on the back of data analysis by a global advocacy organization, Mighty Earth, which reveals that Ghana and…