West African Cocoa Giants Report Progress in Deforestation Fight
- Ivory Coast and Ghana use initiatives to improve forest areas
- Cocoa has been a key driver of deforestation since the 1960s
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Cocoa giants Ivory Coast and Ghana reported progress in goals to end deforestation as they prepare for stricter European Union rules on production standards of the chocolate ingredient.
Top grower Ivory Coast is using satellites to monitor deforestation and planted almost 10 million trees in 2020, while Ghana restored about 226,000 hectares (558,000 acres) of forest area last year, according to reports by the public-private partnership known as the Cocoa and Forests Initiative, or CFI.