President John Mahama is proposing new legislation to criminalise the cutting down of cash crops like cocoa for mining ...

Cocoa has been the backbone of the Ghanaian economy for more than a century. The produce is exported and processed overseas.

President John Dramani Mahama has urged Parliament to enact legislation that explicitly bans the destruction of cocoa farms ...

President John Dramani Mahama has called for the passage of a legislation that would strictly prohibit the destruction of ...

Around 19,000 hectares of cocoa farms have been lost by gold mining activities, according to the Ghana Cocoa Board. While illegal gold mining, and its impact on cocoa farms, has been an ongoing ...

By Samuel Kweku KUMAH and Kenneth Kwabena AMOAH Ghana’s beautiful landscapes are facing a serious threat. In places like the ...

By Elizabeth PUNSU The Ghana Cooperative Cocoa Farmers and Marketing Association (GCCFA), a coalition of 75 cooperative unions from nine cocoa-growing regions, has been officially launched in Kumasi.

Smallholder cocoa farmers in Ghana have launched an umbrella body ... that plans were underway to extend irrigation facilities to farms as part of long-term measures to address low productivity.

Chocolate lovers might notice their favourite sugary snack could cost a bit more or be a bit smaller as climate change ...

“Cocoa is a market where the grower produces a very high-value good but receives a very low share of the actual value chain.

Across West Africa’s cocoa heartland, Eddie Arthur has spent a quarter of a century traveling from farm to farm each day to ...

Indonesia is the third-largest producer of cocoa in the world, behind Cote D’Ivoire and Ghana, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, farmers are joining with businesses ...