Cocoa-growing cooperative set up in 1993
Co-owner of Divine Chocolate Company
2013: over 87,000 members, 32% women
Farms average 6.8 hectares - 3/4 allocated to cocoa
Fairtrade certified in 1995
2012-13: Fairtrade accounted for 50% of Ghana's annual cocoa production
Premium of US$200 per tonnes is invested in a variety of things

Fairtrade Premium Projects

Health
- Provision of pump wells and drilling of 348 bore holes for drinking water
- Construction of 6 ventilated latrines in communities such as Bipoa
- Provision of mosquito net to improve health
- Mobile health services to 17 districts, serving over 200 societies
Education
- Construction/refurbishment of 8 schools and a block of 6 classrooms
- Construction of a 3-classroom block and teacher bungalow at Anakum - children won't have to travel so far to school
- implementation of the Fairtrade Education Programme in 3 schools in Ghana and several others in the UK, connecting them through internet for cultural exchange (collaborating with Trading Vision)
Farmer support
- Seminars and workshops to help farmers develop alternative means of livelihoods during the off-season
- Employment of development officers to advise on good agricultural practices, set up training programmes in management and leadership skills, and organise HIV/AIDS workshops
- Provision of new equipment such as scales and machines for cracking palm kernels - reducing reliance on scales on middlemen and reducing workload of women
- Purchase of 2 mobile cinema vans for education programmes
- Direct payment for farmers in the form of an end-of-bonus
- Construction of warehousing at Tema port and 3 other warehouses to provide safe and ample space for cocoa storage
Community
- Investment in 51 corn mills, one garri processor, oil palm extraction machines and processors, nut crackers, cutlasses
- Construction of 2 day-care centres

	Created by Amy Warrell over 8 years ago

A level Geography (Human geography) Note on Fairtrade: Kuapa Kokoo, Ghana, created by Amy Warrell on 23/05/2018.