Tagged with "Cocoa"

How can data-sharing partnerships enhance access to finance for smallholder farmers?

Access to finance is a key challenge holding back smallholder farmers. This finance gap represents a business opportunity ripe for innovation. Data-sharing partnerships hold the potential for improving access to…

“Trees Bring Oxygen, Shade and Rain”

In Côte d’Ivoire, traditional cocoa farming involved cutting down trees to increase sunlight. This not only accelerates climate change, but also negatively impacts cocoa yields. Shade management is better for cocoa tree life expectancy, quality of beans and soil health. A highly biodiverse cocoa farm has been shown to be drought, disease, and pest resilient.

Sowing Peace in a Divided World

We are living a new reality. Last week, as I returned from my first visit to the African continent since the beginning of the pandemic, I arrived in what felt…

Farm & Cooperative Investment Program: Impact Analysis

IDH initiated the Farm and Cooperative Investment Programme (FCIP) with the government of Cote d’Ivoire (Le Conseil du Café Cacao) in 2017 to improve cooperative investment and farmer prosperity. As…

2-Pager: Roadmap to a Sustainable Cocoa Sector in Liberia

The Liberian government, together with the private sector, civil society, research organizations and farmers’ organizations active in the Liberian cocoa sector agreed to collaborate through the Roadmap to…

Roadmap to Sustainable Cocoa in Liberia

Towards a sustainable and economically viable cocoa sector, that brands Liberia as a source of high quality, environmentally friendly and ethically introduced cocoa beans & cocoa related products.

Request For Proposals (RFP) for consultancy services to model a national-wide cocoa traceability system for Cameroon

Cameroon is currently the fourth largest cocoa producer in the world, with a production level between 280,000 and 290,000 Metric Tons (MT) per year in the last two years1. The…

Cocoa agroforestry – a win-win production activity for resilient food systems

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The first women-owned “Cocoa Fruit Lab” micro-factory to open in Côte d’Ivoire

The Cocoa Fruit Lab in Ivory Coast is empowering women to become the producers and marketers of their own cocoa products, shifting value-addition processes to origin countries. Bringing together actors…