Dr. Richard Munang Absolutely right...equipping oneself with knowledge and skill is essential to get out of the vicious circle of poverty.

I’m very surprised and pleased to be awarded a CBE in the #QueensBirthdayHonours today. I hope in some small way it is recognition for the importance of treasuring and enhancing the natural world in our quest for a thriving and just planet

Living income for cocoa farmers, an illusion or achievable?

Next week's World Cocoa Foundation Partnership Meeting is host to over 50 #cocoa & #sustainability speakers from gov't officials and private sector leaders to subject matter experts and farmers. View speaker bios & register to join us worldcocoafoundation.org/event/wcfpm/?t… #WCFPM #SustainableCocoa

Solving child labour and deforestation for cocoa farmers and not the supply chain means that, a great deal of effort must be dedicated to understand the contexts and Socio-demographic constructs which drive decision making around these issues

If you cannot help build institutions to enforce national laws on forest encroachment, then give up on achieving deforestation-free cocoa in Ghana. Weak institutions can never win the fight against deforestation EU Climate Action Fern

Buy few pieces of toffee and distribute to several people. Use the story to gain several millions of dollars. This is the story of private sector sustainability programs in cocoa.

Don’t complicate your enabling environment.

The politics of numbers and the galamsey games!

To ‘Christians’ who have church buildings built in floodplains and water courses, you are the reason someone’s home gets flooded and a community is not getting water because their stream has ceased to flow. This is not how to demonstrate ‘love your neighbor as yourself’.

Through our International Partnership Programme, we fund innovative, satellite-driven projects around the world. 🛰️ Forests 2020 from Ecometrica uses satellites to protect and restore forests, tackling #climatechange. 🌲🌍 #BSW21 | #COP26 ecometrica.com/forests-2020

"Social media has played a key role as a science #Communication channel but what is shared is not an adequate representation of #COVID19 research across #Africa," acc. to † ☧ B A Gyampoh, EIC of Scientific African Magazine. Why? Check out his analysis on SciDev.Net SS Africa👇! scidev.net/global/scidev-…

What will it profit a nation to plant 5 million trees and destroy #Atewa forest? #GreenGhanaDay #GreenGhanaProject #SaveAtewaForest

Most developing nations are dealing with the ‘symptoms’ when it comes climate change

New paper: Proximity to forest mediates trade-offs between yields and biodiversity of birds in oil palm smallholdings in Ghana onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bt… @Darwin_Defra Leeds Eco&Evol Res

Household work performed in parental homes is not counted as child labour, but household work performed on parental cocoa farm is child labour? So where do we place a 14 yr old bringing plantain home from farm for family use?

Since Monday, landscape management members within 5 Hotspot Intervention Areas under the Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ Program (#GCFRP) have been receiving training on the GCFRP context, its implementation activities, beneficiaries and the Benefit Sharing Plan of the program.

Join us on Twitter Space this evening at 8 pm for the Climate Emergency Day discussion. Let's brainstorm ways to increase our lifeline and make a difference. Let's #Actintime CLIMATE CLOCK tutu benefoh daniel Winston Asante Charles Abani Bossman Owusu Dr Michael Terungwa David #Climate #Food #Justice Portia Adu-Mensah