The cocoa sector in Ghana, which is of strategy importance for Switzerland, is under greatpressure for various reasons. On the one hand, farmers incomes are stagnating, turning them away from cocoa asthey increasingly struggle to make a living out of it. The soil quality is also getting poorer due to extensive monoculture.There are still major social problems linked to cocoa farming (such as child labour). Some of the identified pilotswould be around the Dynamic Agro Forestry approach developed by the Sankofa project, combining it with thework of Swisscontact and CIRAD’s Light Bulb approach to agroecology. Working on agroecology would support theadaptation issues and the EPA invites work in climate adaptation under Article 6.
