From Cassava to Attiéké in 60 Seconds
Attiéké is a popular dish similar to couscous made from fermented cassava. The women sell attiéké made from cassava grown on their own farms, forming a vital pillar of income diversification among...
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Delivering Multipurpose Trees to El Sábalo, Ecuador
These photos show the delivery of 2,000 multipurpose trees for agroforestry to the El Sábalo community, Santo Domingo. Delivery was conducted in collaboration with local partner Burneoexport. With the...
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A Very Short History of Cocoa
Cocoa: An Introduction (Part 2) Nowadays, West Africa is by far the world’s largest cocoa-producing region. Côte d’Ivoire alone is responsible for around 40% of global production, with neighbouring...
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Ecuador: Tropical Forests among Cacao Crops
Note: This article is published in Spanish and English. For the English version of this article, click here. Ecuador: Bosques tropicales en medio de cultivos de cacao Ecuador es un área de alta...
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The Logistics of Contemporary Cocoa
Welcome to the third part of our series explaining cocoa! The previous posts in this series explained the history of cacao and cocoa. This post will explain how the contemporary cocoa industry works....
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Enhancing Cocoa Sustainability
Agroforestry is an upcoming and popular agricultural land management system particularly making commodity cultivation such as cocoa more sustainable. This farming system combines growing diverse trees...
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A World First
Introducing world’s first Rainforest Alliance certified cashew. We are pleased to announce that over the last year, ETG | Beyond Beans has collaborated closely with Rainforest Alliance (RFA), AATIF,...
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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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