Caring for Nature, Sustaining Livelihoods
The Ghana Civil-Society Cocoa Platform (GCCP) have expressed deep concern and disappointment over the newly announced farm-gate price of cocoa by the Minister of Finance for the 2025/2026 season. In a press statement issued on 5th August 2025, the group…
Cocoa farmers and other stakeholders in three cocoa districts (Kade, Bibiani and Manso Amenfi) in Ghana have received training on the upcoming European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), African Regional Standards (ARS) and Productivity Enhancement Programmes (PEPs). The EUDRR, which is…
The Fifth Edition of the Chocolate Scorecard (2024) has revealed that the chocolate industry is undergoing significant improvement, but key challenges such as farmer poverty remain unaddressed. However, the chocolate industry has the resources to address these challenges. It is…
Players in the chocolate industry have been asked to increase efforts to help eliminate child labour in cocoa producing regions, especially Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. The call comes after the annual Chocolate Scorecard found that about 1.56 million children were…
EcoCare Ghana has supported cocoa farmers in about 10 communities on the Wassa Dikoto Stool Land to petition key stakeholders in the Wassa Amenfi East Municipal Assembly to stop the Chief of Dikoto from selling their farmlands for oil palm…
EcoCare Ghana has launched the Cocoa Governance & Advocacy (CGA) Project to leverage ongoing EU & UK Due Diligence Regulation processes to create awareness, mobilize CSOs and strengthen the capacity of stakeholders to reform the cocoa sector in Ghana. The main…
Government and all stakeholders involved in sustainable cocoa production have been urged to decentralize education on the Cocoa Forest Initiative (CFI) to the district and community levels. A baseline survey on the CFI, a national plan to restore degraded forests…
The Ghana Civil Society Cocoa Platform by this statement affirms its support for the decision taken by COCOBOD and CCC of Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire respectively to halt sustainability programs of chocolate and cocoa processing companies who attempt to evade…