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Cultivating Sustainability
Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in Ghana Charles Mfoafo Tetteh, from Koben in the Ashanti region of Ghana, owns four cocoa farms totalling 5.6 ha and a palm oil plantation. He had seen first-hand...
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Cocoa farmers in Ecuador receive their sustainability premiums
This article is published in Spanish with English below. To jump down to the English version, click here. En Ecuador, trabajamos con socios locales para promover la adopción de prácticas sostenibles...
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Helping Farmers Build Climate Resilience in Ghana
The Accessible Soils And Sustainable Environments (ASASE) project, implemented by ETG | Beyond Beans and funded by The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), aims to address the pressing issues facing...
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Losing the Plot: The Impact of Illegal Mining on Cocoa Communities
Dinkyiea is a small community in the Adansi North District in the Ashanti region of Ghana. In the 1980s and 90s, the community used to be a principal cocoa producer, as the vegetation created a...
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Can Biochar Help Combat Deforestation and Climate Change?
In the West African cocoa belt, which produces over 70 per cent of the world’s cocoa beans, lower rainfall, rising temperatures, disease, and ageing trees have already caused marked reductions in...
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FarmSeal – Securing Land Rights for Cocoa Farmers
A lack of secured ownership rights to farmlands reduces smallholder farmers’ incentives to make long-term investments to rehabilitate old and diseased cocoa farms or engage in sustainable land-use...
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Circular Solutions
CI:RRRCLES – Enhancing Cocoa Yields with Compost Fertiliser use is frequently recommended as a key strategy to improve cocoa yields; however, most cocoa farmers are smallholders with limited access to...
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Challenging Gender Norms
Clotilde Ayissi is one of many female smallholder cocoa farmers benefitting from being a member of a VSLA (Village Savings and Loan Association) Thanks to her new agricultural ventures, developed...
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Turning Rural Women into Entrepreneurs
Loans from Village Saving and Loan Associations (VSLA) can be used to fund ventures in farming or other businesses, or to finance school fees — all with the aim of diversifying the incomes of women....
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Farm of the Future
Advancing Climate-Resilient Cocoa Production in Ghana The “Farm of the Future” project in Ghana is a pioneering initiative to transform cocoa farming into a sustainable, climate-resilient industry....
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