CIRAD cocoa research underway in Ghana

CIRAD, the French agricultural research and international cooperation organisation, renewed its partnership with the University of Ghana, in connection with a new research project on cocoa production in West Africa (Ivory Coast and Ghana). 

The research is part of CIRAD’s projects known as Cocoa4Future, an initiative to make cocoa farms in Ivory Coast and Ghana less vulnerable, while preserving the environment and identifying levers for socioeconomic sustainability. Cocoa4Future, which is funded by the European Union and the French Agency for Development (AFD), will run for four to five years.

CIRAD also announced the installation of Dr Guillaume Soullier, a researcher specializing in agricultural sector value chains, at Ghana’s Institute of Statistical, Social, and Economic Research (ISSER) from September 2020.

Attending the event were Frédéric Lançon, Director of the Research Unit “Actors, Resources and Territories in Development” of CIRAD; Dr. Guillaume Soullier, Researcher specialized in agricultural sector value chains; Prof. George Obeng ADJEI, Director of the Office of Research, Innovation and Development (ORID), as well as representatives of ISSER; Prof. Peter QUARTEY and Prof. Ankomah Felix Asante.