cocoa in Ghana

Ghana risks losing cocoa sector: COCOBOD accumulates losses, Non-producing countries start production

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Ghana risks losing its major foreign exchange earner cocoa, due to a combination of factors such as illegal mining, accumulated losses and major developments by some advanced countries to aggressively grow and export the crop. The Ghana Cocoa Board which is mandated to supervise the production and export of cocoa in the country is reeling […]

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GCCP Statement in response to COCOBOD CEO’s remarks in Switzerland about Cocoa-driven Deforestation

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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

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