Ghana's cocoa future at risk without producer-centred climate policies — Study

A new study has called for a major rethinking of climate adaptation and sustainability policies in Ghana's cocoa sector, arguing that future investments must focus not only on protecting cocoa trees and boosting production but also on strengthening the resilience of cocoa producers.

 

The call was made at a gathering in Accra to discuss findings from the study titled "Towards a Cocoa Producer-Focused Climate Policy in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana."

 

The research, conducted by scholars from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and partner institutions such as Harvard University, the Institute for Cacao and Chocolate Research and the Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny (INP-HB) in Côte d'Ivoire, argues that current climate adaptation strategies remain overly focused on cocoa production while paying insufficient attention to cocoa producers.

 

A Research and Policy Breakfast attracted researchers, policymakers, cocoa cooperatives, industry actors, development partners, civil society organisations, and representatives from Ghana's cocoa sector.

 

Presenting the findings, Dr. Albert Arhin of KNUST's Institute for Rural Development and Innovation Studies (IRDIS) noted that climate adaptation efforts in the cocoa sector have traditionally focused on increasing yields, controlling pests and diseases, and improving environmental sustainability.

 

He argued that while these interventions remain important, they are no longer sufficient on their own.

 

"Climate change is not only affecting cocoa trees. It is affecting the people who grow cocoa. Farmers are reporting rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, declining yields, increasing production costs, physical exhaustion, and growing uncertainty about the future of cocoa farming. These human dimensions of climate change require much greater policy attention," said Dr. Arhin.

 

The research was undertaken across cocoa-growing communities in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire and combined household surveys, focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and participatory research methods to capture farmers' experiences and perspectives.

 

According to the findings, many cocoa farmers are experiencing increasing difficulty managing climate-related shocks. Farmers reported working fewer hours during periods of extreme heat, facing rising labour demands, and struggling to implement adaptation measures due to financial constraints. Some also expressed concerns about whether younger generations would remain interested in cocoa farming under increasingly challenging conditions.

 

The study comes at a critical time for Ghana's cocoa sector. National production has declined in recent years, falling from historical averages of around 800,000 tonnes to approximately 600,000 tonnes. While several factors contribute to this trend, including pests, diseases, ageing farms, and rising production costs, farmers consistently identified climate change as a major source of growing vulnerability.

 

The researchers also found that many existing interventions, including price-based measures, have limited effectiveness when climate-related production losses continue to reduce the volume of cocoa available for sale.

 

Although initiatives such as the Living Income Differential (LID) have increased cocoa prices, many farmers continue to struggle with declining productivity and rising costs.

 

The policy brief launched at the event proposes an Eight-Point Agenda for a Producer-Centred Climate Policy. The recommendations include shifting from yield-centred policies towards producer-centred resilience, integrating climate adaptation with income support, investing in climate-smart water management, strengthening adaptation financing, improving farmer participation in decision-making, and incorporating farmer wellbeing into sustainability frameworks.

 

The researchers argue that the long-term competitiveness of Ghana's cocoa sector will increasingly depend on the resilience of its producers.

 

"Healthy and resilient farmers are the foundation of healthy and productive cocoa farms. If climate change continues to erode farmer health, labour productivity, and adaptive capacity, then cocoa production itself will become increasingly vulnerable," Dr Arhin explained.

 

Participants at the policy breakfast welcomed the findings and engaged in discussions on how government agencies, COCOBOD, the private sector, development partners, and research institutions can work together to strengthen resilience across cocoa-growing communities.

 

The study challenges conventional approaches that primarily view climate adaptation through the lens of productivity and environmental protection. Instead, it calls for a broader understanding of resilience that includes health, livelihoods, labour conditions, access to finance, water security, and social wellbeing.

 

The research was supported by the Harvard University Center for African Studies through the Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa. The broader research team includes Dr Carla Martin (Harvard University), Dr Albert Arhin (KNUST), Jose Lopez Ganem (Institute for Cocoa and Chocolate Research), Dr Amanda Berlan (University of Leicester), Richard Tetteh (KNUST), Dr Michael Ehis Odijie (University of Oxford), and Jean-Luc Kouassi (Côte d'Ivoire).

 

The researchers hope the findings will contribute to ongoing policy debates and encourage greater investment in producer resilience as a pathway to securing the future of Ghana's cocoa economy.

 

As climate pressures intensify across West Africa, the study concludes that safeguarding Ghana's cocoa future will require more than protecting cocoa farms. It will also require protecting the farmers who sustain them.

Agricultural cooperatives emerging as climate champions in rural Ghana

In the Assin Central District of Ghana’s Central Region, cocoa farmers gather not just to discuss yields and prices, but to collectively chart survival strategies against a climate that no longer follows familiar patterns.

 

Under the shade of cocoa trees in Assin Fosu, members of a local farmers’ cooperative discuss rainfall forecasts, soil health, and how to safeguard their livelihoods from increasingly unpredictable weather.

 

“We cannot continue farming the same way,” says Samuel Torbi, a leader of the Assin Fosu Cocoa Farmers’ Cooperative, a group turning shared vulnerability into collective resilience.

 

Samuel owns a 17-acre cocoa farm bordering a forest reserve. In good years, his farm produces about 300 bags of cocoa, enough to support his household. After more than 20 years in cocoa production, he says farming has remained his economic backbone. Yet climate change now poses the greatest threat to that stability.

 

“You’re supposed to plant cocoa in March, but when the dry season extends unexpectedly, the young plants die,” he explains. “Climate change is now our biggest challenge in cocoa farming.”

 

Across Ghana, climate variability is rewriting the rules of farming. According to the Ghana Meteorological Agency, average temperatures have increased by about 1°C over the past 30 years, while rainfall has become increasingly erratic. The World Bank estimates that climate change could reduce Ghana’s agricultural productivity by up to 7% by 2050 if adaptation measures are not scaled up.

 

This poses a direct threat to smallholder farmers, who account for over 60% of Ghana’s agricultural workforce and produce nearly 80% of the country’s food, according to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA).

 

In regions such as the Upper East, Northern, Bono, Ahafo, and parts of the Central, prolonged dry spells, flash floods, and soil degradation are driving down yields, raising production costs, and deepening food insecurity.

 

Cocoa, Ghana’s leading agricultural export and a livelihood for over 800,000 farm families, is particularly vulnerable.

 

Cooperatives as engines of climate adaptation

 

Amid these challenges, agricultural cooperatives are emerging as a quiet but powerful force in Ghana’s climate response. Once viewed primarily as vehicles for market access and bargaining power, cooperatives are increasingly functioning as hubs for climate-smart agriculture, information sharing, and risk management.

 

Agricultural researchers note that farmer-based organizations are gaining relevance because they provide a structured platform for engagement with government agencies, research institutions, and development partners.

 

Dr. Victor Owusu, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geography Education, University of Education, Winneba, whose research focuses on agrarian food systems and livelihood resilience, describes climate change as a planning nightmare for farmers.

 

“The erratic nature of the weather makes agricultural planning extremely difficult,” he says. “This is where cooperatives become critical. While climate science informs policy, farmers also possess indigenous knowledge that has sustained their livelihoods for generations. Cooperatives create a space where scientific knowledge and local experience can work together.”

 

In Assin Fosu, change began with targeted training sessions supported by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), the Ghana Cocoa Biard (COCOBOD), and local NGOs. Farmers were introduced to climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices such as mulching, crop rotation, shade tree integration, improved seed selection, composting, and rainwater harvesting.

 

Abdul Rahman Ayiku Tetteh, the Pruning, Irrigation and Cocoa Management Systems Coordinator at the Cocoa Health and Extension Division (CHED) of COCOBOD, describes cooperatives as essential allies in reaching farmers efficiently.

 

“Climate change is affecting production and wellbeing,” he explains. “We educate farmers on planting disease-resistant varieties, integrating shade trees, and protecting cocoa from direct sunlight. When cooperatives are involved, information spreads faster and adoption rates improve.”

 

CHED estimates that farms practicing recommended shade management and pruning techniques can improve productivity by 15–25%, even under climate stress.

 

The Assin Fosu cooperative has 72 active members, meeting monthly to review production data, welfare concerns, and business performance. Special farmer business schools provide hands-on training in climate-smart practices.

 

“We now understand that cutting down trees worsens climate stress on cocoa,” Mr. Torbi explains. “Shade trees improve soil moisture, regulate temperature, and protect yields.”

 

Beyond agronomy, the cooperative has introduced group savings schemes, bulk input purchases, and shared irrigation support, reducing individual costs by up to 20%, according to members.

 

“Before, I couldn’t afford fertilizer,” says Sala Iddrisu, a cocoa farmer and mother of two. “Now we buy together and support each other.”

 

Some members have also committed portions of their land to tree planting and carbon sequestration initiatives under REDD+ programmes, contributing to Ghana’s emission reduction targets while restoring degraded landscapes.

 

Policy shift toward bottom-up solutions

 

Experts say cooperatives are central to scaling climate adaptation across the country.

 

According to Dr. Victor Owusu, for decades, agricultural governance in Ghana has largely followed a top-down model, limiting local participation in policy design and implementation.

 

“We've realized that the top-down approach towards dissemination of information, such as climate change, availability of subsidies for farmers, including fishers, there's a big gap communication gap, most of the information or the intended materials do not get to the people who are supposed to be using this information and other materials for their work to benefit their welfare.

 

“So gradually, we are moving towards a bottom up approach where government and other agencies are now recognizing the importance of empowering local cooperatives to also be actively involved in the management and governance of agriculture, food value chain,” he observed.

 

Ghana’s Updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and the Climate Resilient and Green Economy Strategy explicitly recognize farmer-based organizations as key actors in adaptation and mitigation efforts.

 

However, challenges remain. Access to climate finance, long-term technical support, and research partnerships continues to constrain cooperative growth.

 

Dr. Owusu says empowering farmer-based organizations and local cooperatives will get them more involved in the management of the food value chain, especially in taking interest in climate change and its ramifications on the local agriculture sector.

 

“The agriculture sector is directly under the mercy of climate change, because we talk about farming, they depend on the mercies of the weather; the rainfall and the temperature. When we talk about the fishing, it's also the same.

 

“So information dissemination is very important, when we are talking about climate change and climate information, so that these farmers will be able to use this information for their planting season and other important information that will help them to sustain their various businesses,” he stated.

 

Back in Assin Fosu, farmers are preparing for the next planting season. They are testing cover crops to restore soil fertility, composting organic waste, and experimenting with drought-tolerant cocoa seedlings.

 

“We are no longer just surviving,” Mr. Torbi says. “We are adapting and leading.”

 

As climate change tightens its grip on Ghana’s food systems, one lesson is becoming increasingly clear: resilience is not built solely through technology or central policies, but through empowered communities working collectively.

 

In that future, agricultural cooperatives are not just participants; they are climate champions, shaping sustainable pathways for rural Ghana.

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This article is written by Kofi Adu Domfeh as part of a collaborative project between JoyNews, CDKN Ghana, and the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability at the University of Ghana, with funding from the CLARE R41 Opportunities Fund.

How illegal mining, climate change rob cocoa farmers of arable land in Ghana

The Ghanaian economy's cash cow is cocoa, which ranks second in terms of foreign exchange earnings.

 

But the cocoa business is reeling under the threat of climate change.

 

The nation has been pursuing climate-smart cocoa production techniques, such as planting shade trees on cocoa farms, to assist sustainable production.

 

However, the recent occurrence of illegal mining activities, whereby miners destroy planted trees, farms, and water for irrigation, has hampered these efforts.

 

The effects of irresponsible mining on the cocoa industry and the costs associated with the fight against climate change are examined by Kofi Adu Domfeh.

 

Farming Cocoa

Meet Fatima Osman, a 43-year-old farmer at Pakyi No.1 in the Amansie West District of Ashanti region.

 

In the past 19 years, Fatima has supported her husband to farm cocoa and other root and tuber crops like cassava, yam and plantain on their three-acre farm.

 

“This is what we do to cater for ourselves and four children,” she says. “Farming has been beneficial to us in these years. We are able to take our children to school, take them to hospital when sick and save something small with the rural bank”.

 

But recent developments on their farmland has got her worried.

Her only source of water for irrigation was the Akai Stream which has been destroyed through illegal mining.

 

The water body is all muddy and milky, not fit to be used to irrigate crops.

 

“The miners use the water to wash their gold,” said Fatima. “Now, we only pray for the rains to cater for our crops”.

 

A bigger threat however stares the farmers in the face. These illegal miners are gradually invading their cocoa plantation.

 

“They first came with an offer to compensate me to take over the farm but I refused,” Fatima’s husband, 56-year-old Bawa Osman, narrated. “Now, other farms are being invaded. We look helpless”.

 

Like most farmers in the community, Fatima and her husband are not natives and therefore own no lands.

 

They have no say when the farmlands are being taken from them for other purposes.

Traditional authorities have been blamed for selling out farmlands to illegal miners.

 

Experts warn of dire socio-economic and climate change consequences if cocoa farms continue to be excavated for gold.

 

The prized bean under threat

 More than half of the chocolate consumed worldwide is produced on cocoa plantations in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, where tens of thousands of smallholder farmers supply lucrative fair-trade markets in industrialized nations.

 

Ghana produces one million metric tons of cocoa on average per harvest year when the weather is favorable and farming techniques have been improved. However, when the soil is insufficiently fertile to support plant development, production falls off.

 

Major obstacles to sustainability include nutrient loss and sunburn. Temperatures are high due to climate change, and the cocoa plants struggle because of the heat and the dearth of nutrients in the soil.

 

A steady increase in temperature, an extension of the dry season, and a decrease in annual rainfall are being seen over the bulk of Ghana's natural zones.

 

Climate scientists at the Colombia-based International Centre for Tropical Agriculture, CIAT, have long predicted that the expected increasing temperatures will lead to massive declines in cocoa production in Ghana and other cocoa-growing areas in West Africa by 2030.

Warmer conditions mean the heat-sensitive cocoa trees will struggle to get enough water during the growing season, curtailing the development of cocoa pods, containing the prized cocoa bean.

 

Promoting a more beneficial Shade-Loving System

 In order to improve yields, soil quality, water stream preservation, and biodiversity, cocoa production has shifted from a "sun loving system" to a more advantageous "shade loving system".

 

Farmers like Fatima and Bawa have been encouraged by government policy to include trees in their cocoa production.

 

The Forestry Commission and the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) assist by supplying the farmers with tree seedlings to encourage afforestation for improved productivity.

 

“We ask the farmers to combine the cocoa trees with timber trees, high yielding economic trees. Once you have the timber trees on the farm, they will be providing a lot of shade because cocoa is a forest plant and it thrives best when it exists with other trees,” said COCOBOD Chief Executive, Joseph Boahen Aidoo.

 

Bawa was excited to have received 40 pieces of economic trees, in addition to some plantain suckers to plant in between his cocoa farm since 2014.

 

“After pegging the cocoa, you calculate the intervals and know where to plant the trees,” he explained. “The trees have helped my cocoa to grow very well”.

 

His production increased from an average 30 bags per acre to 43 bags of beans in the current harvest.

 

The phenomenon of illegal mining 

COCOBOD’s investments in cocoa-growing areas are however under siege of illegal mining activities, popularly known as ‘galamsey’.

 

Affected farmers are not only losing their cocoa plantations, but shade trees received from the government to support their cash crop production.

 

Traditionally, small scale mining has been part of Ghana’s history but not until 1989 when the government recognized its legitimacy through the Small-scale Mining Act (PNDCL 218), and later integrated in the current Mining Act 703 (2006).

 

But with the dwindling opportunities in the formal gold mining industry, there has been an upsurge in illegal mining, popularly known as ‘galamsey’ in the parts of Ghana.

 

In this operation, the miners have no license and no concession. They however invade forests, farmlands and water bodies with heavy mining equipment to exploit for gold ore with no regard to environmental protection.

 

Research has shown about 12,000 hectares of cocoa land have been traded off for artisanal small-scale mining in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti region between 2010 and 2020.

 

A visit to the small farming community of Anyinamso reveals a daring act of illegal mining in the path of water bodies.

 

Illegal miners have taken control of and destroyed the whole river belt of the River Anyinam even as the government fights mining close to water bodies.

In certain cases, illegal miners excavate trenches around their crops, making it impossible to get to the farms.

 

An acre of cocoa plantation can be purchased for between Gh10,000 and Gh25,000.

 

Sometimes the miners cut off those who wouldn't sell from their crops, like Boakye Mensah.

 

“The miners do everything possible to frustrate us and force us to sell out our farms, but we are determined not to give away our farms because it is a legacy for us and the next generation,” he said.

 

Most farmers who sell their cocoa lands to the miners are impoverished over time.

“We are appealing to the government to help control the destruction of cocoa farms by these illegal miners. Every mined area here used to be a cocoa farm that could have served our country well. But they have uprooted them all,” said Boakye. 

 

Dr. Shalom Addo-Danso of the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG) has studied the actual impact of shade trees on various aspects of the cocoa system, including soil nutrient, yield, and carbon, with the intention of influencing policy and providing the farmers with proof of the value of growing and protecting trees on their farms.

 

He claims that illegal mining, a significant environmental problem, and climate change are now posing a double threat to local communities and landscapes.

 

Rainfall patterns are disturbed when water bodies within forests are destroyed by the illegal miners.

 

“This, in the long-term, affects cocoa production because cocoa cannot withstand drought. Therefore yields will be affected, trees will die and incomes of the farmer will diminish,” he said.

 

The researcher is in favor of giving communities the tools they need to understand how trees affect cocoa fields and the long-term effects of removing them.

 

A bigger quantity of emissions are exposed by destroying cocoa plantations and the ability for sequestration is lost as a result of climate change, which results in the loss of the cocoa sink – average 70 tonnes of carbon per hectare for a high agro-forestry cocoa system.

 

According to Dr. Winston Asante, a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources at KNUST, once these forest reserves continue to experience increased illegal mining activities, the climate change implications are observed on two fronts — the removal of carbon and the loss of potentials for emissions combat.

 

Because they can no longer rely on the rains to farm and it becomes more difficult to get non-timber forest products, the majority of communities that live around forests see a negative impact on agriculture's contribution to household resilience.

 

Because most of the forests are unavailable due to unlawful mining, he noted, "their reliance on the forests as an alternative to diversify their household income and food supplies is also compromised."

Ghana’s REDD+ and COCOBOD’s Dilemma

The Ghana Cocoa Board projects its annual cocoa output to rise to 1.6million tonnes by 2026. But this is threatened by the activities of illegal miners.

 

Its research has shown that several cocoa farms in the Western, Ashanti and Eastern regions have been lost to illegal mining activities.

 

Out of the over 20,000-acre cocoa farms, more than 19,000 acres have been devastated by galamsey, representing 80 percent of the selected cocoa farms destroyed between 2019 and 2020.

The Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ Programme is the world’s first commodity-based programme to reduce emissions. The Programme aims to improve smallholder farmers’ livelihoods through considerable yield increases and other benefit-sharing arrangements while considerably reducing emissions brought on by deforestation and forest degradation.

But as observed by Dr. Asante, illegal mining in cocoa farms undermines the gains made under the Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ interventions.

 

Ghanaian farmers earn about 80% of household income from cocoa. These farmers are already looking for means to build resilience to improve their livelihoods beyond the climate impacts.

 

“If we see agroforestry as a good means to pursue cocoa farming, not just for the resilience and sustainability of the cocoa farm, but also because it holds implications for climate mitigation and adaptation for the farm and then for the farmer, then we must begin to see these as a land use that will bring interest and benefit that are competitive,” he said.

 

A lot of the farmers are willingly putting their cocoa farms into illegal mining. The miners offer more money than the tangible benefits of agroforestry, hence a lot of the farmers are impatient in giving out their farms for income that they can use to improve their poverty levels.

 

Fatima and her husband, for instance, are afraid they may not survive the onslaught of the illegal miners on their farm.

 

Authorities in the Amansie West District Assembly will not speak on record but say they have been working with the central government’s taskforce to clamp down on illegal mining.   

 

During a recent visit to degraded sites in the Amansie area, however, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, said “the fight against illegal mining can be won if it is a collective action”.

 

Assuring the local assembly of the government’s support, Samuel Abu Jinapor charged the various security councils to step up efforts in dealing with the menace.

 

“How is it the case that such an operation can be mounted and such level of devastation can happen when there is a district outfit of the Minerals Commission which should have an inspectorate division?” he queried.

 

As the fight continues, Dr. Winston Asante expects the country’s policy on tree tenure and ownership security to clearly be in the interest of farmers who plant and nurture trees.

 

“As a country we still haven’t pursued agroforestry at the policy level to the point where the farmer feels confident in the trees he has planted,” he observed. “We still see trees in cocoa farms as timber for exploitation. So these trees are given to contractors and concession holders to come and cut,” he stated.

 

It has become imperative to urgently remedy the destruction caused by illicit mining to the climate vulnerable cocoa plantations and communities if cocoa is to remain the mainstay of the Ghanaian economy.

 

This report was completed as part of the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development's 2022 Climate Change Media Fellowship in West Africa with funding support from the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI).

 

Community outreach motivates Timeabu farmers to appreciate the business of farming

Farmers at Timeabu are excited at opportunities to improve their levels of production and productivity, following a community outreach program spearheaded by the Centre for Climate Change and Food Security (CCCFS), a not-for-profit organization.
 

The predominantly cocoa production community in the Ejisu-Juabeng Municipality of Ashanti region has in years past experienced challenges in accessing information and farm inputs to enhance their cocoa operations.

“We don’t even know which district is responsible for the marketing of our cocoa produce,” lamented local chief farmer, Mohammed Haruna.

Other production challenges faced by the over 100 farmers include erratic supply of pesticides, access to improved seedlings, poor marketing systems and upholding best agronomic practices.

The community outreach event offered a platform for the farmers to get their challenges addressed whilst shaping other perceptions and practices that impede higher production.

CCCFS engaged cocoa and agricultural officers to sensitize and help address the concerns of the farmers – some of the farmers had instant solutions to their issues, whilst others received assurance of a short-term intervention.

A Senior Research Officer at the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Fuad Abubakar, encouraged the farmers to desist from over- reliance on government for support but invest in their farming as a business.

"Treat it as any business venture and give it the all attention it needs. Surely, it will pay you back," he emphasized.

Mr. Abubakar said the farmers can position themselves to reap higher returns if they see their venture as any private business entity.

Bekwai District Cocoa Officer, Abednagao Asante, commended CCCFS for the initiative and promised to make available requested inputs by the farmers.

He acknowledged his responsibility to help turn around the fortunes of the farmers.

The farmers, at the end of the session, expressed renewed hope to turn round their fortunes with increased production in the seasons ahead.

"We promise ourselves that this will be the time for us to make farming a real business. We also promise to get better organized, and budget our time and money better on farming," said one of the farmers.

The Timeabu community is also challenged with access to electricity and teachers to handle the only primary school in the area, a situation they appeal for government’s support.

A stream, serving as the main source of drinking water for the community, has also been polluted from upstream as a result of illegal mining activities.

Board Member of the Centre for Climate Change and Food Security, Kofi Adu Domfeh, cautioned the farmers against giving away their farmlands for artisanal mining purposes if they are to be financially and environmentally secured.

“Don’t be lured to sell your lands for galamsey,” he said. “Yes, you may reap the benefit now but the real consequences of the activities may stay for ages; our lands, trees and water bodies are under threat of extinction and we need to secure the future for the next generation.”

Mr. Domfeh shared his experience from other countries where farmer cooperatives thrive and enjoined the local farmers to join forces to get issues addressed collectively.

CCCFS has committed to take the community outreach program to other deprived farming communities in Ghana.

The Centre’s goal is to empower depressed farming economies to be among the resolution-makers determined to make a difference for improved livelihoods.

 

CCCFS has other uniquely designed programs to promote environmental and climate change awareness in schools, and promote farming as a lucrative venture for young people.

These include ‘Food for Africa’, which involves a group of agriculture enthusiasts across Africa and beyond sharing ideas on a common platform to promote food production.

The centre also runs the ‘Young Aspiring African Farmers’ initiative.