Ghana

Ghana’s cocoa forest landscape has one of the highest deforestation rates in Africa, at 3.2% per year. Forest degradation and deforestation across this agro-forest mosaic, which covers 5.9 million ha of Ghana’s High Forest Zone, is being driven by continued cocoa farm expansion and other types of agriculture, coupled with a recent up-surge in illegal mining and logging. View Country Profile. 

Ghana's FCPF Carbon Fund Program
Program name: Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ Programme
Program location:

6 hot spot intervention areas in the high forest zone
Program area: 5.9 million ha
ERPA terms: Up to $50 million for reductions of 10 MtCO2e

Ghana’s ER program is an ambitious and unique initiative in Africa—and a global first in the cocoa sector—that is supporting the production of sustainable, climate-smart cocoa beans while reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. The program addresses landscape management with a focus on sustainable cocoa farming, forest protection, community-based landscape governance, and multistakeholder collaboration; it also promotes other tree crops, agroforestry, and other nature-based livelihoods within the cocoa forest hot spot intervention areas.

Ghana
27.4
Population
millions
228
Land Area
1
37.5
GDP
$ billions
41.0
Forest Area
% land area
-0.3
Deforestation
avg. annual %
15.1
Terrestrial protected areas
% of total land area

ER Program Details

Country Focal Points

Madhavi Pillai (World Bank - TTL)
Darshani De Silva (World Bank - Co-TTL)
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