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 …

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 …

Sustainable intensification of cocoa systems should embrace, among others, poverty
alleviation and climate change policies. Using data from 710 households in Ghana, we …

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 …

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) aims to transform and reorient farming systems to decrease
greenhouse gas emissions, boost adaptive capacity, and improve productivity while …

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 …

Ghana, as the second largest global producer of cocoa, is strategically positioned on the
world market. Consumer concerns over ethical and environmental issues associated with …

In 2011, public and private sector entities in the Ghanaian cocoa industry began working
together to assess the socio-economic and ecological sustainability of the sector, to identify …

Poverty continues to be a widespread issue among cocoa farmers while chocolate
consumers become increasingly sensitive for the sustainability issues associated with the …

Based on a longstanding colonial history of unequal exchange between the Global North
and South, cocoa-based products and in particular chocolate nowadays belong to the …