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30 September 2021 Ghana
Farmers in the poorer areas of the world are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The international community is expected to step up efforts to help them adapt to the new circumstances. TBI stresses that such interventions will need to be designed based on a profound understanding of local perceptions and needs.
16 September 2021 Ghana
Ordinarily, engagements within the cocoa sector especially in the community have been male-dominated. However, women along the cocoa value chain, specifically women cocoa farmers are capable of enhancing climate-smart cocoa production and sustainability if given the right resources including access to real-time information and capacity development. Under the Green Livelihoods Alliance Programme II (GLA 2), Tropenbos Ghana strengthened the capacity of eighty-two (82) women from various cocoa co-operatives across eleven (11) Cocoa Districts in the Western North Region of Ghana.
09 September 2021 Ghana
The Board Chair of Tropenbos Ghana, Professor Alfred Oteng-Yeboah has been awarded the highest conservation award - the John C. Phillips Memorial Medal by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for his immeasurable contribution towards biodiversity conservation. The Ghanaian Professor received the prestigious award at the 2021 IUCN World Conservation Congress held in Ma
23 August 2021 Ghana
Key stakeholders in natural resources and agriculture in the Western North Region have undergone a three-day training in climate-resilient actions. The training was organized by Tropenbos Ghana under its Mobilizing More for Climate (MoMo4C) Programme. Representatives from Community Resources Management Area (CREMA), Hotspot Management Board (HMB), youth in cocoa, women in cocoa, and individual farmers in Sefwi Wiawso municipal, Juabeso, and Bia West districts benefited from the training.
15 August 2021 Ghana
The capacity of two hundred and seventy-six (276) field agents and other technical officers of Cocoa Health and Extension Division (CHED) in all Cocoa districts across the Western North region have been strengthened in Climate Smart Cocoa Practices. The rationale is to ensure Community Extension Agents (CEAs) with their incessant engagement with cocoa farmers have the requisite skills, knowledge, and the most up-to-date information on climate change to further strengthen the capacity of cocoa farmers in climate-smart cocoa practices.
20 July 2021 Ghana
Some environmentalists are advocating the adoption of what they term precision mining system and the signing of reclamation bond to help promote responsible mining among small-scale miners. These recommendations were made at a national multi-stakeholder dialogue (MSD) workshop organized by Tropenbos Ghana under the NORAD-funded project ‘Securing Food and Ecosystem Services in Mining Plagued Regions of Ghana’.