Country: Ghana
Our Accessible Soils And Sustainable Environments (ASASE) project (2021-25) worked towards an environmentally sustainable future for the cocoa sector, tackling deforestation and working to rehabilitate ageing cocoa farms and restore natural forests.
Using a landscape approach, the ASASE project moved away from the traditional focus on the direct supply chain and instead intervened on three levels: working together with cocoa farmers, their rural communities and in local forest remnants.
Farmers received sensitisations and trainings on agroforestry practices, as well as land and tree tenure documentation to improve the long-term security of their farms. Further, the project facilitated the conservation of forests and the reforestation of degraded areas through approaches such as Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES), where farmers received (in-kind) value in return for their efforts to protect or even re-build forests around their cocoa farms.
You can read more about the ASASE project here and the experiences of one of our farmers here.
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