Sustain-Cocoa: Sustainable sourcing policies for biodiversity protection, climate mitigation, and improved livelihoods in the cocoa sector

Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana
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What are the socio-economic and environmental trade-offs of diversified agroforestry?

This projects aims to understand the conditions under which supply-chain sustainability initiatives are able to facilitate agroforestry adoption. It also asks what are the socio-economic and environmental trade-offs of diversified agroforestry? The work involves semi-structured interviews, on-farm biophysical measurements, and socio-economic household surveys conducted in Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire.

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Nature-based insights analytical framework

To explore practical yet ecologically and socially robust approaches to implement nature based solutions along supply chains, we have set up a social venture spin out of Oxford University Innovation: […]
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The Flourishing Landscapes Programme

The Flourishing Landscapes Programme (FLP) addresses the triple challenge of livelihoods, climate change, and biodiversity loss at tropical forest frontiers. FLP focuses on landscapes with agricultural land-use dominated, to varying extents by, by coffee or cocoa production.