Ending Deforestation from Cocoa in West Africa

Ending Deforestation from Cocoa in West Africa | GFW Blog

The WAC and the Cocoa DRA can inform decision making and coordinated action to reduce cocoa-driven deforestation.

After five years, recipe to end deforestation from cocoa farming ...

When the Cocoa & Forests Initiative was signed in 2017 between the world's major cocoa companies, the governments of Ghana and Ivory Coast, ...

Protecting forests and sustaining livelihoods

Cocoa related deforestation in West-Africa is of critical concern. The loss ... end deforestation linked to cocoa and restore forest resources. Our ...

Cocoa planting is destroying protected forests in west Africa, study ...

“Cocoa farmers in west Africa receive a mere 6% of a chocolate bar's retail price. They are on the losing end of the supply chain, too ...

Is the End of Cocoa-Related Deforestation Within Reach?

In response, the world's leading cocoa and chocolate companies and the governments of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana came together in 2017 and signed landmark ...

Collective Action to End Cocoa-Related Deforestation

forest areas. Their combined actions play a crucial role in protecting and restoring biodiversity, sequestering carbon stocks in West African forests, and ...

Cocoa plantations are associated with deforestation in Côte d'Ivoire ...

Our results suggest that cocoa cultivation is an underlying driver of over 37% of forest loss in protected areas in Côte d'Ivoire and over 13% in Ghana.

Cocoa & Forests Initiative (CFI) Reports Progress Towards Ending ...

Although satellite monitoring tool IMAGES registered a decrease in deforestation in 2021, in 2022 it witnessed an unfortunate increase, ...

Your Cocoa, Kissed By Deforestation - Mighty Earth

Mighty Earth undertook mapping of cocoa-producing regions in four countries outside of West Africa and found a high risk of deforestation in ...

Cocoa trade, climate change and deforestation | resourcetrade.earth

The growing demand for cocoa is driving deforestation in West Africa and other forest-rich areas. Ambitious trade policies and governance ...

How Does Cocoa Farming Cause Deforestation? - Earth.Org

While soy, timber, palm oil, and livestock are the big drivers of deforestation globally, in West Africa, the forest clearings can be attributed ...

CFI reports progress toward ending deforestation in the cocoa sector

The Cocoa and Forests Initiative (CFI), a collaboration between governments and chocolate companies, has announced significant strides ...

Eliminating Deforestation from Ghana's Cocoa Supply Chain

The Rainforest Alliance led the workshop, which aimed to strengthen the commitment and cooperation of local actors to ending deforestation in ...

Sweet Nothings: How the Chocolate Industry Has Failed to Honor ...

A report from Mighty Earth reveals ongoing cocoa-driven deforestation across West Africa, despite promises from chocolate producers. ... Sweet Nothings: How the Chocolate Industry Has Failed to Honor Promises to End Deforestation ...

Cocoa and African Deforestation: | Mighty Earth

Since November 2017, the chocolate industry has embraced the goal of ending deforestation in cocoa. ... forest — has been lost in the South West region.

Patterns of (future) environmental risks from cocoa expansion and ...

Cocoa is an important historical driver and direct cause of forest loss and degradation in the West African Upper Guinean biodiversity hotspot.

Collective Action to End Cocoa-Related Deforestation - General Mills

Cocoa provides crucial income to communities in rural West Africa, but farmers are too often faced with poverty. Poverty is one of the causes of ...

Why Cocoa is Still Much Too Cheap - Welthungerhilfe

Similarly, the cost of transitioning to deforestation-free cocoa cultivation in West Africa can be calculated. Research has shown that despite their ...

Cutting Deforestation Out of the Cocoa Supply Chain - World Bank

In West Africa, cocoa has been identified as a major driver of deforestation which has led to serious soil degradation, water insecurity and ...

How cocoa farming can help stop deforestation

The decision to expand cocoa farms into protected forest areas have often been driven by factors beyond a farmer's control, namely extreme poverty. Farmers have ...