Together with Danida Green Business Partnerships (DGBP), we are launching a new project in Ghana.
The CASILIENT project aims to enhance cocoa yields and improve the livelihoods of 5,000 cocoa farmers through pruning and planting agroforestry trees across 8,000 hectares of cocoa farms, and supporting farmers to diversify their farm activities and income. The carbon revenue generated through the production of biochar and agroforestry will be distributed via Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES).
This initiative is implemented in collaboration with Agro Eco, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), the University of Copenhagen, Federated Commodities (FEDCO), and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).
Our Programme Manager, Remi van Balen, and Programme Officer, Lucia Halbherr, travelled to Ghana to join the Project Coordinator, Kwadwo Mensah, to kick off the project with Agro Eco and their supporting partner Dibcoop.
The team aligned on project planning and visited flagship initiatives by Agro Eco and Beyond Beans. These included a two-year-old and a twenty-year-old agroforestry plot developed by Agro Eco, as well as some of our efforts such as income diversification through snail farming, a pruning group, a reforestation plot and a Community Resource Management Committee (CRMC).
We are excited about the impact CASILIENT will bring and look forward to sharing more as the project progresses.
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