USAID Land
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The TGCC Ghana project partnered USAID and Ecom Trading, Hershey Chocolate’s Ghanaian cocoa supplier, is helping boost tenure security and cocoa production for vulnerable cocoa farmers like Khosa.
Based on the knowledge that cocoa farmers’ land tenure insecurity deters them from investing in their farm to improve their harvests, the project worked to strengthen farmer’s land rights by mapping their land and noting their historical use of the land in a document certified by the local chief. For many farmers this is the first documentation of their land rights. The project also offers farmers financing to rehabilitate and diversify their farm.
The potential benefits of this approach go beyond the farm gate, as farmers with secure rights to land and access to financing can increase their harvests without cutting down more forest to expand their farm. Photo credit: Rena Singer
USAID_TGCC_Ghana_2017-16.jpg
The TGCC Ghana project partnered USAID and Ecom Trading, Hershey Chocolate’s Ghanaian cocoa supplier, is helping boost tenure security and cocoa production for vulnerable cocoa farmers like Khosa.
Based on the knowledge that cocoa farmers’ land tenure insecurity deters them from investing in their farm to improve their harvests, the project worked to strengthen farmer’s land rights by mapping their land and noting their historical use of the land in a document certified by the local chief. For many farmers this is the first documentation of their land rights. The project also offers farmers financing to rehabilitate and diversify their farm.
The potential benefits of this approach go beyond the farm gate, as farmers with secure rights to land and access to financing can increase their harvests without cutting down more forest to expand their farm. Photo credit: Rena Singer