DECLARATION BY CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS FROM COTE D’IVOIRE AND GHANATOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE COCOA SECTOR
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For the 2022/23 mid-crop, the Ivorian and Ghanian regulators have left unchanged the fixed farm-gate price to 900 XOF per kg ($1,507 per tonne) and 12,800 GHS per tonne ($1,206 US per tonne), respectively.
A recent Global Forest Watch report1 indicate that between 2017 and 2018 Ghana’s rate of deforestation rose by 60%, the highest in the world. The same report singled out agricultural expansion (in the middle and southern belt of Ghana) and mining (in the north) as leading in this unfortunate state of affairs. These causes, as suggested