Agriculture is a major contributor to the global environmental crisis. Natural ecosystems are
being replaced by agricultural land, which leads to the extinction of species and the release …

There is mixed feeling and mixed reaction from various quarters in recent times towards the
perception that Ghana is progressively crawling into a developed country status. Generally …

Policy responses to balance the trade-offs between nature conservation and socioeconomic
development have recently come to the fore in Ghana–the world's second largest producer …

The sustainability of cocoa farmers' livelihoods is a critical concern within the academic
discourse surrounding the Cocoa-chocolate value chain, aligning with SDG goal 1 of …

Despite widespread attempts to'eat local,'many of the lifestyle factors in the Global North rely
on the production of agrifood commodities that can only be grown in tropical ecosystems, far …

Preliminary assessments of the cocoa value chain from using FAO's EX-ACT Value Chain
tool show that it has a significant potential to improve farmer incomes while mitigating …

To tackle the multiple challenges facing the cocoa sector, voluntary sustainability standards
and corporate initiatives, largely focusing on farm and farmer group scale, are often …

In this study, we produced a spatially explicit diagnosis of the deforestation hotspots and
future climate risk (2050) of cocoa producing areas, zooming into the top 8 cocoa exporting …

Impact assessments are used to raise evidence and guide the implementation of
sustainability strategies in commodity value chains. Due to methodological and data …

• While tree commodities, including cocoa, coffee and oil palm, are important for Africa's
economic and social development, negative environmental externalities from these …