A lack of secured ownership rights to farmlands reduces smallholder farmers’ incentives to make long-term investments in their farms. By providing farmers with access to land titling, we are working to change the status quo.
Category Archives: Ghana
Losing the Plot: The Impact of Illegal Mining on Cocoa Communities
Illegal gold mining has destroyed landscapes and caused severe deforestation, now, with our help, things are taking a turn for the better.
Helping Farmers Build Climate Resilience in Ghana
The Accessible Soils And Sustainable Environments (ASASE) project, implemented by ETG | Beyond Beans and funded by The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), aims to address the pressing issues facing cocoa farming in Ghana, particularly the adverse effects of deforestation and climate change.
Cultivating Sustainability
Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) plays a vital role in supporting both farmers and companies in sustainable practices. Charles Mfoafo Tetteh, a cocoa farmer from the Ashanti Region in Ghana, is one of the beneficiaries.
Enhancing Cocoa Sustainability
Last year, Vanessa Schielke, a student at the Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences completed her thesis on Sustainable Value Chains. Her research focused on the socio-economic and environmental factors that influence smallholders’ decision to adopt agroforestry practices. As a case study, she travelled to Ghana’s Ashanti region to analyse Beyond Bean’s agroforestry programmes and how they impact smallholder farmers. Vanessa has now completed her studies and joined Beyond Beans as an intern! To help us learn from her research, Vanessa has written an article explaining her findings, including the effectiveness of our agroforestry programmes and where improvements can be made.
Cocoaching
Countries: Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria For the past decade, Farmer Field Schools (FFS), conducted in groups of 15-20, have been the main source of trainings for smallholder farmers over the past decade. Although FFS trainings have helped many farmers develop more sustainable farming practices, the adoption rates of those practices are often low, even belowContinue reading “Cocoaching”
Ghana
Ghana is the second largest world’s producer of cocoa. Beyond Beans has been active in Ghana since 2020. At the end of 2022, our projects reached around 25,000 farmers across 5 of the 7 cocoa growing regions. Key Focus Areas:• Agroforestry• Living Incomes• Community Development• Certification Projects On the pages below you will find aContinue reading “Ghana”
Cocoa Juice
Country: Ghana Our cocoa juice project is working to turn the juice from the cocoa fruit into a commercially viable product that can help rural farming communities generate an additional income stream. The project is already raising farmers’ incomes by 10%, with potential to reach 30% once the project is fully upscaled. A typical cocoaContinue reading “Cocoa Juice”
ASASE
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 intervenedContinue reading “ASASE”
VSLA-CHILD
Country: Ghana VSLA-CHILD uses a bottom-up, community driven approach to address the underlying reasons behind child labour in the cocoa sector, with a focus on income-generating activities, awareness raising, and gender empowerment at the household level. VSLAs are community-based groups made up of 15-30 individuals who come together to collectively save a small portion of their incomes,Continue reading “VSLA-CHILD”