As cocoa prices reach an astronomical high, farmers are more than ever destroying forests to expand production, at the decimating expense of conservation efforts. By: Olatunji Olaigbe If, like me, you try to get to the Drill Exhibition Ranch in Calabar using Google Maps, you’ll end up two streets away Read more…
| Olatunji Olaigbe & Ibrahim Khalilulahi Usman It is midday in Barekese, a farming community in Ghana’s Ashanti Region, about 300 km from the capital, Accra. As the sun beats down, Philip Anane, 50, walks through his cocoa farm, stepping on dried brown leaves scattered beneath the trees. His crops Read more…
It is past midday in Asubia, a farming community in Western North Ghana. As the sun scorches, Abubakar, 50, walks on the brown leaves between cocoa trees on his farms, inspecting the progress of his crops. ‘’I have been farming cocoa for more than 30 years, it is what I Read more…