Sentences with phrase «cocoa farming»

All efforts to revive cocoa farming in the community proved futile as their lands were no longer suitable for cocoa cultivation.

The future of cocoa farming, and with it the future of chocolate looks bleak.

The programme focuses on three key areas — training cocoa farmers, supporting cocoa farming communities and investing in the long - term sustainable production of cocoa.

The youth were urged to make good use of the incentives available to them and enter into cocoa farming as a business.

Food security is a critical element of sustainable cocoa farming.

Our suppliers use their own cocoa farming and maintain the highest standards of cocoa beans selection, roasting and grinding.

The issue of child labour came to the fore in 2001 after a series of media exposes depicted forced child labour and trafficking on West African cocoa farms.

We are proud to partner with organic cocoa farms around the island.

Researchers surveying for endangered primates in national parks and forest reserves of Ivory Coast found, to their surprise, that most of these protected areas had been turned into illegal cocoa farms, a new study reports.

But with the multi-layered supply chain, entrenched rural poverty and thousands of small cocoa farms, efforts have been «insufficient» according to the ILO.

Adrien Koffi Kouadio owns a Rainforest Alliance Certified ™ cocoa farm in Paul Kru, Côte d'Ivoire.

Barry Callebaut inaugurates further classrooms in rural cocoa farming communities in West Africa Cocoa Horizons Foundation funds 3 education projects in -LSB-...]

The NPP parliamentary candidate for the Jomoro Constituency Paul Essien together with his executives were on Monday 18th April 2016 arrested for attempting to spray cocoa farms in the Jomoro District.

About 40,000 young people have been enticed into cocoa farming following the introduction of the «Young Cocoa Farmers» Programme» Dr Francis Oppong, Deputy Chief Executive (Agronomy and Quality Control), COCOBOD, has announced.

She appealed the District Assemblies to act decisively to stop the destruction of cocoa farms through illegal gold mining.

This year's report illustrates the company's initiatives to improve the livelihoods of cocoa farmers through sustainable cocoa farming practices and to address the basic health and education needs of cocoa communities.

o Conference Programming: The National Chocolate Show will ignite discussions with industry leaders for the advancement of the chocolate industry through empowering conference programming on cocoa farming sustainability, improvement of the livelihood of cocoa farmers, trend spotting, fine flavor exploration, new product development, business insights, and more.

Armyworms have invaded several cocoa farms in the Ejisu - Juaben municipality in the Ashanti region.

In 2017, hundreds of hectares of cocoa plantations were destroyed by the activities of miners across the country, with cocoa farms in the Eastern, Western and Ashanti regions being the worst affected.

This has led to farmers abandoning cocoa farms and focusing on rubber or palm oil instead, -LSB-...]

Its Cocoa Research Centre in Selborne Estate in Pahang state, Malaysia, conducts research on cocoa - related inter-cropping, pest and disease management, and soil management to promote increased productivity and biodiversity at cocoa farms.

Added benefit: the shade requirements for Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee and cocoa farms also happen to produce better tasting beans (who says you can't be both virtuous and indulgent?).

Building on this work, the Sustainable Finance Initiative, along with other partners, will test the development and the implementation of a small - scale multi-party technical assistance and investment facility that will eventually be scaled - up to finance 10,000 cocoa farm rejuvenation projects across Côte d'Ivoire.

These improvements are necessary to increase cocoa farm productivity, ensure sustainable cocoa supply, and improve cocoa farmer livelihoods in Côte d'Ivoire.

From Sava, I continued my journey to visit cocoa farms in the northwest before reaching the village of Antanambao back in the east.

As a summer analyst with the Rainforest Alliance's Sustainable Finance Initiative, I conducted a two - month investigation of crop diversification as an intervention strategy for smallholder cocoa farming in West Africa, with a focus on Ghana.

We have a long - standing commitment to sustainability, as we believe that the future of our industry depends on its ability to make cocoa farming more viable and attractive to farmers, today and tomorrow.

He visited a Kuapa Kokoo cocoa farm and one of the schools that we work with, and wrote a lovely blog about his travels for the Dubble website.

He revealed that as a result of this, COCOBOD since 2014 intensified its efforts at encouraging the youth to see cocoa farming as «a lucrative business rather than a way of life».

According to them, the Mahama administration prior to the determination of the producer price of cocoa made provision for the purchase of 2.2 million bags of granular fertilizer and 1.6 million liters of liquid fertilizer to fertilize over 1million hectares of cocoa farms free of charge to the farmer in the 2016/2017 cocoa season.

With the implementation of the adopted interventions including free fertilizer distribution, mass cocoa spraying, free distribution of hybrid seedlings, cocoa farms rehabilitation together with other programmes being implemented in the cocoa industry, premium quality cocoa beans would be supplied to the local and world markets.

Some cocoa farmers in the Eastern Region are threatening to embark on a demonstration to register their displeasure over the sale of cocoa farm lands to rubber plantation investors by their land owners.

«Bitter chocolate: Illegal cocoa farms threaten Ivory coast primates.»

Grenada is a hub of organic and ethical cocoa production, and the festival program gives curious cocoa lovers a chance to spend time on a rainforest cocoa farm, get their hands dirty during cooking classes, and shamelessly eat chocolate for breakfast.

COCOA FARMS Most of the farms that produce cocoa in Brazil are situated in the South of Bahia, close to Ilhéus and Itacaré.

The Barry Callebaut Group, the world's leading manufacturer of high - quality chocolate and cocoa products, inaugurated three education projects in rural cocoa farming communities of Côte d'Ivoire.

Brace yourselves, chocolate lovers: The anticipated one - degree rise in world temperature by 2030 will devastate Western Africa's small cocoa farms, according to Colombian researchers.

Adrien Koffi Kouadio owns a Rainforest Alliance Certified ™ cocoa farm in Paul Kru, Côte d'Ivoire.

As a direct result of cocoa farmer poverty, it is estimated that more than 2 million children are working on cocoa farms in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana alone - which can not be accepted.

Two other monkeys — the Roloway monkey and the White - naped mangabey — were seen in only two reserves and are critically endangered, at least partially due to the habitat destruction caused by illegal cocoa farms.