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”
Category Archives: Projects
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”
Cookstoves
Country: Côte d’Ivoire In Côte d’Ivoire, Beyond Beans aims to stimulate the commercial distribution of improved cookstoves to support forest conservation and the livelihoods of farming communities. These stoves significantly decrease household air pollution, help households save on fuel expenditure, and they reduced the time spent collecting firewood. The project, known as ProcarBOOH (Booh meansContinue reading “Cookstoves”
EnRoute
Country: Côte d’Ivoire & Togo Funded by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) and implemented by ETG | Beyond Beans in partnership with KIT Institute and Oxfam Novib, the 4-year EnRoute project was designed to find practical, cost-effective ways to support farmers in Côte d’Ivoire and Togo towards a Living Income. To date, increased pricing mechanismsContinue reading “EnRoute”
Cocoa Fruit Lab
Country: Côte d’IvoireKey Objective: Generating additional sources of income for cocoa-growing communities and minimising waste. 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 potentialContinue reading “Cocoa Fruit Lab”
Hana River Eco-Corridor
Country: Côte d’Ivoire The Tai National Park in Côte d’Ivoire is home to some of the last remaining areas of primary rainforest in West Africa. We are working with cocoa farmers who live along the Hana river to create a 20-metre barrier of protected forest along the riverbanks. Forest areas, especially along rivers, promote biodiversity,Continue reading “Hana River Eco-Corridor”