CLIMATE SMART

COCOA APPROACH

With subsidiaries in originating regions, and

agents in key locations, Touton’s strength lies in

the skills of its workers, the cultural diversity of its

teams, and a deep understanding of the

countries in which the company operates.

Sustainable sourcing within a

sustainable landscape

Presentation CSC

A unique partnership with Ghana

COCOBOD, Forestry Commission and a

consortium of partners to address the

causes of deforestation.

Pilot the implementation of a

deforestation-free cocoa initiative in the

framework of Ghana’s REDD+ programme.

Key milestones:

▪ 50,000 farmers targeted by 2021

▪ Development of a “Climate Smart

Cocoa” national standard

▪ Assessment of the tangible impacts on

deforestation and carbon emissions

Cocoa Production

Context & Challenges

➢ Recent declines in cocoa productivity, causing greater expansion. The forest that enhances cocoa production is being degraded. There is 2% rate of deforestation

➢ Lack of productivity due to overaged farms

➢ Soils are degraded

➢ Reduced rainfall and extreme climate variability

➢ Poor water quantity and quality

➢ Lack of land use planning for land, water and ecosystems management

➢ Poor livelihoods

➢ Food insecurity

➢ No incentive for rehabilitation and reforestation due to land and tree tenure challenges

➢ An increase in illegal logging from a growing domestic demand;

➢ An up-surge in illegal, small-scale mining due to market trends, the availability of foreign and local laborers, and landowners giving up

unproductive farms for mining.

Farm/ local

o Productivity and income

o Resilience & Adaptation

o Food security/ improved livelihood

o Reducing risk

Landscape/regional

o Land use planning

o Resource mgt/governance

o Tenure reforms

o Addressing Deforestation

o Landscape monitoring

o Reporting standard

National

o Incentives/ benefit sharing

o Policy reforms

Global

o Incentives/carbon benefits

o Supply chain financing

Success Factors for

CSC

Landscape GovernanceClimate Change Educationo Agro eco specific climate change

Adaptationo Biodiversity and ecological resilience

Land Use Planning/Tenure/PolicyEmission and Deforestation MonitoringCompliance with « Landscape Standard »

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➢ Establish Consortium of partners

➢ Develop more Rural Service Centres to

deliver services to increase farmer

resilience

➢ Develop landscape and forest

management boards to provide

governance and land-use planning

➢ Develop a climate-smart cocoa, zero

deforestation sustainability standard

and validation system

➢ Market climate-smart cocoa beans

➢ Landscape monitoring and emissions

accounting

Key programme

components

Integration into

National Strategy Climate Smart Cocoa

Model at Community and

District Level

Landscape /

Jurisdictional

Convenor

- Contribute to a mutistakeholderplatform at Landscape or Jurisdictional level.

- Measuring our sustainability outcome at the landscape scale by complying with the ‘Landscape Standard’

Contribute to

National Platform

and Emission

Reduction / Redd+

Programme of

Ghana

Financially sustainable

incentive

mechanism for cocoa-

forest landscape governance

Improve livelihoods

through yield

increase and

additional income

sources

Reduce

GHG

emissions driven by

unsustainable

agricultural

practices

Enhance carbon

stocks in low shade cocoa

systems

Demonstrate importance of

community land-use planning in

Cocoa Smart Agriculture

Promote biodiversity

and ecological

resilience of cocoa

farming landscape

Sustainable Sourcing within a

sustainable landscapeCLAIMS

- Climate smart Landscape

o Climate Smart Cocoa

o Climate Smart Spices

o Climate Smart coffee

o ETC