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{"metadata":{"id":"00a1749cb34f3dc6d33d66e769bac54a","source":"gardian_index","url":"https://cgspace.cgiar.org/rest/bitstreams/118a51f8-4354-4685-961d-7481c6509261/retrieve"},"pageCount":2,"title":"Mobilizing private sector partners for climate action in the cocoa value chain","keywords":[],"chapters":[{"head":"","index":1,"paragraphs":[{"index":1,"size":90,"text":"Initial outcomes include a clear demand from private sector partners for improved information on climate change and cocoa in Ghana expressed by the widespread use of exposure maps at the recent global World Cocoa Foundation partnership meeting. Companies such as Hershey's, Mars, Lindt, Tom's, Guittard and Tcho as well as key trading houses like ECOM, Olam and ADM have shown interest, and some have offered to provide additional data to further improve the models. The World Cocoa Foundation has also requested further engagement to mainstream results at the sector level."},{"index":2,"size":49,"text":"The long-term objective is defined as adoption of recommended CSA practices by 15% of global cocoa producers and 7% of global coffee producers, as well as the provision of USD 350 million of tailored financial products to producer organizations, traders, exporters, and other key value chain actors by 2019."}]},{"head":"KEY FACTS","index":2,"paragraphs":[{"index":1,"size":44,"text":"• Ghana is the world's second largest exporter of cocoa, climate change and variability is projected to impact the sector significantly • About 70% of the global cocoa supply is from West Africa, produced by smallholder farmers on less than 5 ha of land."}]},{"head":"LESSONS: KEY ELEMENTS OF SUCCESS","index":3,"paragraphs":[{"index":1,"size":14,"text":"• Partnership between various actors including agricultural/climate scientists, voluntary certification bodies, and impact investors "}]}],"figures":[{"text":"  "},{"text":"  "},{"text":"  "}],"sieverID":"1099480f-63e0-493a-a14f-621f9cff5d4b","abstract":"Efforts to ensure the use of CCAFS climate science and sitespecific climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices in the Rainforest Alliance voluntary certification scheme and in impact investment approaches implemented by Root Capital began in 2015. The project leverages existing smallholder value chain interventions to translate climate science into actionable strategies for farmers and supporting actors, including agricultural businesses, voluntary certification schemes, and investors, across a number of geographies using smallholder coffee and cocoa systems in Africa and Latin America as model cases."}