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The BACP Market Transformation Strategy for Cocoa defines the priorities along which BACP will allocate funds for cocoa projects in the first five years of implementation (a second five-year phase is expected to follow). The ultimate goal of the program is to contribute to the preservation of...

The Sustainable Cocoa Production Program (SCPP) is a large partnership comprising the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO, The Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH), Swisscontact and private cocoa sector companies, including Armajaro, ADM Cocoa (SERAP), Cargill (SULA), Mars and Nestlé...

To achieve a more sustainable world cocoa economy the industry needs to start taking more focused action as soon as possible. Data on the current situation needs to be collected, publicly reported, activities towards sustainability goals need to be developed and the resulting improvements should...

A number of studies were recently launched on certified organic production in Uganda and Tanzania, focusing on quantifying the economic and social impacts of organic conversion, but also addressing organizational, institutional and technology issues. This paper summarizes the results of two of...

This paper examines the revenue effects of certified organic contract farming and of use of organic farming methods in a tropical African context, using survey data from a medium-size cocoa-vanilla contract farming scheme in Uganda. These are compared with ‘organic by default’ conventional...

This document is one of three reports on the methods and results of a consultancy with the title “Predicting the impact of climate change on cocoa , cashew and cotton growing regions in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire” conducted by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) for the Bill...

In this report, Oxfam assesses the social and environmental impacts of the world’s ten largest food and beverage companies and calls on them to take the critical next steps to create a just food system. Today, a third of the world’s population relies on small-scale farming for their livelihoods...

Floristic surveys were performed in 17 traditional cocoa forest gardens under different management regimes in the humid forest area of southern Cameroon, to assess the impact of intensification on plant biodiversity. It was found that management as practiced in traditional cocoa forest gardens...

In Ghana, the diversity and density of non-cocoa trees in cocoa farms is primarily the result of farmers’ managing natural processes of regeneration in forest-fallow systems. Tree diversity is therefore more a result of haphazard, uncoordinated decisions over a long period rather than advanced...

The main objective of this paper is to show that under certain conditions cocoa may switch from a status of deforestation agent in the twentieth century to a reforestation agent in the twenty-first. In the meantime, less dependency upon primary or secondary forest probably means more...

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