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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