Productivity, Protection & Resilience in Cocoa Landscapes
Ghana,
concluded
Cocoa is Ghana’s most important agricultural commodity. The cocoa sector is also one of the biggest drivers of deforestation in the country.
Cocoa is Ghana’s most important agricultural commodity. The cocoa sector is also one of the biggest drivers of deforestation in the country. Due to a lack of knowledge and access to finance combined with proper land management, smallholder farmers are not able to intensify their production or replant their aging cocoa plantations, leading them to encroach on existing forests with new cocoa plots.
In line with governmental priorities and building on private sector commitments, the Partnership for Productivity, Protection and Resilience in Cocoa Landscapes (PPPRCL) project reduced local deforestation, enhanced community resilience, and increased farmer yields and incomes.
To contribute to these objectives, the project focused on three key outcome areas:
Developed and piloted community-based governance frameworks to protect forests.
Developed and strengthened market-based services to increase productivity in an environmentally sustainable manner.
Developed financial incentive mechanisms for communities and cocoa farmers.
The project also stimulated joint private sector investments to scale up and replicate successful innovations across other cocoa-growing areas in Ghana and Ivory Coast. The PPPRCL project was funded by DFID and implemented by a consortium with SNV, the Nature Conservation Research Centre (NCRC), Agro-eco, COCOBOD, the Forestry Commission and Touton S.A. (lead implementer).
