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22 November 2018 Ghana
Civil Society Organisation in Ghana have over the years acquired a vast array of expertise in diverse fields including forestry and monitoring which can be tapped into by the Cocoa and Forests Initiative in its quest to address the role of cocoa cultivation in forest degradation and deforestation.
24 September 2018 Ghana
Illegal artisanal and small-scale mining has destroyed fertile agricultural lands, water bodies and forests in mining communities in Ghana. This has endangered food security in the affected communities while jeopardizing biodiversity.
12 September 2018 Ghana
The Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation (NORAD) is lending support to the Ghana Government to step up the governance of its natural resources by funding two non-governmental organisations working in the forestry sector; Tropenbos Ghana and A Rocha Ghana, to generate empirical information that will feed into the creation of an Integrated Land-Use Policy.
04 September 2018 Ghana
In 2017, Tropenbos Ghana contributed to a revised policy framework released by the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC).
18 July 2018 Ghana
While in the past, traditional customary laws were enough to keep people from trespassing on certain parts of forested landscapes such as sacred groves, which often served as a repository of the original fauna and flora of a forest, and from hunting, farming and fishing on specified days and periods which also sought to arrest the overexploitation of forest and water resources, the advent of Western Civilisation saw the demise of these laws.
18 July 2018 Ghana
Ghana, Ivory Coast and Colombia together account for two-thirds of global cocoa production, with Ghana and Ivory Coast accounting for 70 percent while Colombia accounts for 1 percent. However, this feat is achieved at the expense of the tropical forests of these three countries since deforestation is relatively high in all three countries due to the fact that primary forests are continually being cleared for the cultivation of this important cash crop and other food crops.