Cocoa4Future: putting people and the environment back at the heart of cocoa growing
19/01/2021 - Press release
Making cocoa growing in West Africa more sustainable and resilient. this is the task set for the Cocoa4Future project, coordinated by CIRAD and funded by the EU DeSIRA programme and the Agence Française de Développement. Over five years, more than 150 monocrop or agroforestry cocoa plantings will be assessed from an agro-environmental point of view, while 350 farms in Ivory Coast and Ghana will benefit from support for new farmer strategies, notably as regards agroforestry. The different project partners have just signed a consortium agreement.