{"id":7024,"date":"2019-12-06T08:56:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T05:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7024"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:44","slug":"financing-the-transition-to-agroforestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/12\/06\/financing-the-transition-to-agroforestry\/","title":{"rendered":"Financing The Transition To Agroforestry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UN Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bamba\nIbrahim, a 35-year-old cocoa farmer in Agboville in the Ivory Coast grew up in\na family of cocoa farmers, helping his family with the farm while going to\nschool. But When he was 15, he started farming full-time. Today, his cocoa\nbeans are worth than a few years ago, as the price of cocoa has dropped. \u201cOf\ncourse, I wish I had more land so I could plant more cocoa and make more\nincome,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The failure of current models of\ncocoa production<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nchocolate business is one of the largest in the world. In 2015, the global\nmarket for cocoa amounted to approximately US$100 billion. West Africa accounts\nfor 70 per cent of global cocoa production, supplied by smallholder farmers\nlike Ibrahim. C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire and Ghana are the largest producers. In C\u00f4te\nd\u2019Ivoire, cocoa production and trade represent 40 per cent of export revenues\nand employs 8 million people, almost one third of the country\u2019s population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One\nserious issue with cocoa production in West Africa is the systematic decline of\nthe quality and quantity of cocoa yields. Over the years, extensive cultivation\npractices have led to ever-increasing expansion of cocoa areas, deterioration\nof soil quality and decreasing crop yields. This has resulted in large-scale\ndeforestation and the deterioration of soil quality in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire. Over 80\nper cent of the country\u2019s forests have disappeared since 1960. C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire\nused to be a world biodiversity hotspot of great biological richness and\nspecies diversity, but deforestation has put that at risk as animals are\nrapidly losing their last habitat\u2014including elephants, pygmy hippos, flying\nsquirrels, pangolins, leopards and crocodiles. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/financing-transition-agroforestry\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment Bamba Ibrahim, a 35-year-old cocoa farmer in Agboville in the Ivory Coast grew up in a family of cocoa farmers, helping his family with the farm while&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}