Sentences with phrase «ivorian cocoa sector»

Another is that the challenges facing the cocoa sector deal with power and political economy, and are not just «technical».

The Rainforest Alliance and UTZ program welcome the report, which highlights that efforts to address poverty and unsustainable practices in the cocoa sector are falling short.

Cargill has published its third report on the progress and achievements of the Cargill Cocoa Promise, its commitment to sparking a more sustainable cocoa sector for generations to come.

Its main activities in Ghana are in the cocoa sector and extend to other agricultural commodities and the broad field of sustainable land management.

Additionally, we have developed an analytical tool to help understand the cost and benefits of diversification in the Ghanaian smallholder cocoa sector that can be adapted to other geographies.

Gender inequality is a significant challenge within the cocoa sector.

More than 50 key actors in the Ivorian cocoa sector came together to launch the living income benchmark study for cocoa - producing regions in Côte d'Ivoire.

A chief in the Eastern Region, has given out vast tract of land to the youth in his area, and non-indigenes, who have interest in the cocoa sector, but are hindered by lack of land.

It is within your academic right to scrutinize government's performance with cocoa sector but in doing so one expect an academician of your calibre to expand the scope of your indicators than the narrowed assessment captured therein.

Dr Opuni, appointed on November 30, 2013, to head COCOCBOD, is alleged to have mismanaged the cocoa sector during his four - year tenure.

At the conference which brought together cocoa industry stakeholders from around the globe, Lucy and MacCarthy were exposed to presentations which focused on encouraging youth engagement in the cocoa sector.

Ghana and Ivory Coast have adopted a common framework to protect the cocoa sector and forest reserves in both countries.

In a statement on the matter, it said it was appalled by the «[government's] exceptional determination to destroy the reputation of a man who has labored to transform the cocoa sector in Ghana.»

The theme for the celebration of the 2016 World Cocoa day in Ghana was, «Transforming the cocoa sector for economic growth - The role of the youth».

Aside the regular challenges the cocoa sector faces from pests and diseases, activities of small scale illegal miners popularly has emerged to be a major threat to the country's total cocoa...

The Office of the Former President has noted a regrettable pattern of false and inaccurate information put out by the Chief Executive of COCOBOD intended to slander the former President as a way of covering up bad management practices and decisions identified and highlighted by the NDC Minority in Parliament about the country's cocoa sector.

In the cocoa sector, the Minister said the total amount of metric tonnes produced every year, both under President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills and under President Mahama, had always been higher and above what was experienced under the NPP.

Mr. Mahama's office, described such claims as only «intended to slander the former President as a way of covering up bad management practices and decisions identified and highlighted by the NDC Minority in Parliament about the country's cocoa sector.»

To this end, The Office of the Former President, charged Boahene Aidoo's management to address the bad management practices and decisions identified and highlighted by the NDC Minority in Parliament about the country's cocoa sector, instead of covering up.

«I have shared on this tour the vision of the NPP and Nana Akufo - Addo for reviving the cocoa sector including the reintroduction of the mass cocoa spraying [exercise] and fertiliser subsidy programmes without discrimination,» he said on Facebook.

Olubamiwa O. Executive Director of CRIN said notable leaders from southwest Nigerian joined academics, industry representatives, and stakeholders in Africa's cocoa sector to discuss research priorities across both the public and private sector platforms, shared research experiences and identify research needs to unleash the potential of the crop.

Nteranya Sanginga, Director General of IITA, said that the symposium aimed to bring together different stakeholders including public institutions, private partners and donors along with scientists, researchers, industry partners, farmers and other stakeholders across the value chain to draw a roadmap for a sustainable cocoa sector in the region.

«I have visited 22 villages in the Amenfi West Constituency, since Sunday morning, interacting with farmers and other constituents on issues of development and especially the all - important cocoa sector.

Mr. Opuni's tenure was engrossed in several allegations of corruption and mismanagement of the cocoa sector, with his critics accusing him of running down the critical sector; which generates revenue for the country and employs millions of Ghanaians.

The Ashanti Regional branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) earlier described the prosecution as witch - hunting, adding that it is «appalled by what it calls government's «exceptional determination to destroy the reputation of a man who has labored to transform the cocoa sector in Ghana.»

He stated that also from 2016, the Government would spend over GHc3 billion to boost the cocoa sector, import 500 tractors for the farmers and put up measures to help address post harvest losses.

Aside the regular challenges the cocoa sector faces from pests and diseases, activities of small scale illegal miners popularly has emerged to be a major threat to the country's total cocoa output.

Mr. Boahen Aidoo, who spoke to journalists at a news conference on Wednesday, took on the NDC Minority, because according to him, they have made several baseless and false claims about the new government's management of the cocoa sector.

Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, running mate to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, has promised that an NPP government after the December polls, will revive what he calls the «ailing» cocoa sector.

The penchant to siphon funds through inflated contracts was rampant in the NDC administration through ill - conceived construction contracts in the cocoa sector.

The CPC maintains that the decision is necessary to stay relevant in the cocoa sector and give investors value for money.

Ghana's cocoa sector risks a dip if the country fails to address the politicization of the sector.

He said the penchant to siphon funds through inflated contracts was rampant in the NDC administration through ill - conceived construction contracts in the cocoa sector.

At a press conference in the Western Region, the Minority accused the Akufo - Addo government of poorly managing the cocoa sector.

President Akufo - Addo and President Alassane Ouattara reaffirmed their commitment to promote jointly the consumption of cocoa on local, regional and emerging markets, and agreed that consultation between Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire, on the management of their cocoa sectors, should be done on a regular basis.

The Asunafo North Municipal Director of Agriculture, Mr. Eric Osei Aduamah, has given an upbeat assessment of Ghana's cocoa sector,...

It recommended three policy options to strengthen the agriculture sector: improving the quality and effectiveness of public expenditure, the environment for agriculture businesses to promote value addition and fixing challenges in the cocoa sector given the large size of the cocoa economy.

A coalition of NGOs published a key report on the cocoa sector on April 19, 2018: the Cocoa Barometer.

As issues such as deforestation become more of a focus for the cocoa sector, transparency and traceability are integral to the solution, and a better understanding of the source of their cocoa can help companies work toward ending issues like cocoa - driven deforestation.

Every year the WCFPM brings together a diverse group of actors in the cocoa industry, including representatives from companies along the cocoa supply chain, members of governments of cocoa producing countries, and relevant NGO actors to discuss challenges and solutions for improving the sustainability of the cocoa sector.

Last week, Rick Scobey, the President of the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF), opened the 2017 World Cocoa Foundation Partnership Meeting (WCFPM) by enumerating the 6 key sustainability challenges that need to be addressed within the cocoa sector: the first challenge on the list was «Farmer Livelihoods and Poverty», which Rick noted has been at the top of the list for the past 17 years — since the World Cocoa Foundation was established.

Not exact matches

It compares characteristics and provides market trends for ten «voluntary sustainability initiatives» in the forestry, coffee, tea, cocoa and banana sectors.

From June 5 — 7, 2018, more than 200 leading personalities from the cocoa and chocolate industry, governments and civil society will gather in Davos / Switzerland to discuss how technology is spurring innovation in our sector, explore how we can ensure a sustainable chocolate future and highlight the role of business as a change agent.

Not just about baby food marketing, but trade union busting; failure to act on child labour and slavery in its cocoa supply chain; exploitation of farmers, particularly in the dairy and coffee sectors; and environmental degradation, particularly of water resources.

The initiative is being spearheaded by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of COCOBOD, Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni, to ensure the sustainability of the cocoa industry, through massive involvement of the youth into the sector.

As part of the 1 - District -1-Factory programme, COCOBOD, and other private sector actors, according to President Akufo - Addo, will roll - out programmes that create small - scale cocoa processing industries across the cocoa - growing districts of our country.

According to him, cocoa production would be 121 - years of continued production especially at Eti Oni, urging stakeholders to rally round the government in order to boast the agriculture sector and cocoa production.

«To minimise the risk, government is investing in the area of agric infrastructure like mechanisation, irrigation, supporting the fishery sector and improving the road sector, especially in the cocoa producing areas», he said.

In order to Knowledge the country's debt to cocoa, the Mahama - administration took various steps, all aimed at promoting the vital sector of the economy including renovation and rehabilitation of all the research centres, free fertilizer distribution, deplored extension officers and research officers across all the cocoa growing areas.

A commitment by the two countries to process a major part of cocoa, and the invitation of the private sector, notably the African private sector, to invest massively in cocoa processing in Africa, was also reached.