A Landscape Approach to Supporting Sustainable Cocoa | World Cocoa Foundation
Beyond Beans Photo by Beyond Beans Natural forests capture carbon dioxide, increase biodiversity, and improve soil quality, providing ecosystem services that entire communities benefit from. For Ghana’s 800,000 cocoa-farming households however, the country’s high risk of deforestation brings with it the threat of lower, less reliable rainfall and rising temperatures that could damage cocoa trees, reducing yields and household incomes. At the end of last year, the public sector, private sector and ci...
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