Cocoa farming in Ghana
(Mondelez International / Kwabena Amankwaa Agyeman)
A farmers cooperative meeting in Asuokaw Odumase (Mondelez International / Kwabena Amankwaa Agyeman)
The Asuokaw Odumase model farm used to demonstrate benefits of greener farming to other communities (Mondelez International / Kwabena Amankwaa Agyeman)
Community bakery in Nankase-Ningu (Mondelez International / Kwabena Amankwaa Agyeman)
Martuy Vide Meiley, a volunteer for the community pastry business group in Nankase-Ningu (Mondelez International / Kwabena Amankwaa Agyeman)
Community soap making Nankase-Ningu (Mondelez International / Kwabena Amankwaa Agyeman)
Tree Global nursery in Tafo (Mondelez International / Kwabena Amankwaa Agyeman)
Griff Kilbourne, Tree Global's operations manager (Mondelez International / Kwabena Amankwaa Agyeman)
Ajai-Emmanuel Osa, cocoa farmer in Ghana (Mondelez International / Kwabena Amankwaa Agyeman)
Snacks giant Mondelēz International has been investing in Ghana's cocoa farming communities to improve environmental standards, but what benefits are farmers seeing on the ground?
"Last year we had a drought, and then in February there was some bush burning and fires," explains Nicholas Addo, a cocoa farmer in the rural Ghanaian village of Bososo whose family's livelihood - like...
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