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Restoring the Environment and Livelihoods of Smallholder Farmers Affected by Illegal Mining in Ghana - GCP/GHA/031/JPN

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Ghana is the second largest cocoa producer and exporter in the world, together with Côte d’Ivoire, and produces about 70 percent of the world’s cocoa. The country’s cocoa industry employs approximately 800 000 farm families and generates about USD 2 billion in foreign exchange annually. However, illegal small scale gold mining in the country, popularly referred to as galamsey , has resulted in the destruction of cocoa farms, loss of forest cover and biodiversity, and the rise of land and water pollution. Cocoa productivity has also been decreasing as a result of climate change, unsustainable farming practices, ageing cocoa trees, and low soil fertility, among other things. Against this background, the project aimed to promote climate resilience and sustainable cocoa production, using successional and diversified cocoa based agroforestry, and to restore the environment and livelihoods of smallholder cocoa farmers affected by illegal mining. The project was implemented in Kwabiribiem Municipal District and in selected communities in Denkyembour District.

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