HOW COCOA FARMING FAMILIES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES BENEFIT FROM COCOA LIFE

BUT THERE ARE CHALLENGES:

COCOA LIFE IS INVESTING IN FARMERS, THEIR FAMILIES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES

No access to finance and agricultural inputs to rehabilitate farms with good planting material and shade trees

Lack of community development planning to improve livelihoods

With these challenges, farming is not seen as an attractive option for the next generation of cooa farmers

$400 MILLION BY 2022 TO REACH: THE PROGRAM WILL:

And 1,000,000 community members

Provide knowledge and skills to improve productivity, protection of fertile land and the environment, and a more secure future Inspire women’s leadership

in cocoa farming and in their communities

Help communities plan and advocate for their own development

COCOA LIFE STANDS FOR A PROMISING FUTURE FOR COCOA FARMING FAMILIES

WHAT COCOA LIFE DOES

Cocoa Life works with partners to transform communities by linking improvements in productivity with progress towards development goals. We provide knowledge and skills to improve cocoa families’ livelihoods and opportunities, inspiring a new generation of growers.

FARMING

COMMUNITY

YOUTH

LIVELIHOODS

ENVIRONMENT

Provide access to education with:

Provide access to nurseries with improved planting materials

Women mentor women on farming and vegetable cultivation

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Developing a communityaction plan

Improve financial literacy and provide access to finance

Train on entrepreneurship and on how to create additionalsources of income

Create Community Development Committees who implement the plan and ensure all voices are heard in the process

A school A teacher A birth certificate to enroll

Train farmers in Good Environmental Practices

Sensitize cocoa farming families on child labor and tracking children’s school attendance

WOMEN’SEMPOWERMENT

CHILDLABOR

I have a leadership

role in developing our community’s action plan.

I’m working in the community

nursery and I hope to be a cocoa farmer

someday.

We receivetraining in good

agricultural practices so our

trees arestronger, we cangrow more cocoa

and make more money.

I want to be a successful farmer because I want to

provide a good life for my family.

I am a productive,professional cocoa farmer and make a better living

from cocoa.

Aging trees, unfertile soil, climate change, pest and diseases, and limited knowledge of farming techniques all result in low productivity and income

All farmers receive training in Good Agricultural Practices (e.g. tree pruning, weeding, pest and disease control)

200,000 cocoa farmers in Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Indonesia, Dominican Republic, India, and Brazil

CROSS-CUTTING THEMES:

Create opportunities for youth to have a career in cocoa farming

I borrowed money from my savings group and turned my sewing skills into a business

as a seamstress in my village.

I used my savings to pay

for school tuition and school

uniforms for my children.

We’re learning about the importance

of our forests. We won’t expand

our farms into protected lands.

We're planting shade trees and

learning how that helps reduce the impact of

climate change