This website is designed to give you access to resources you need to understand climate-related risks of cocoa production and to guide you to action on the ground in one place.
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What is climate-smart cocoa?
Why climate-smart cocoa (CSC)?
How is CSC different from other approaches?
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Climate-Smart Cocoa (CSC) rests on three pillars that support Climate-Smart Agriculture:
- Productivity, seeks to optimize yields and quality in relation to the inputs needed.
- Adaptation, embodies the need for long-term resilience to climate change, as well as farmer capacity to minimize short-term risks and prevent long-term stresses.
- Mitigation, of greenhouse gas emissions, helping to reduce the contribution of cocoa to climate change.
CSC= Sustainable Agriculture + Resilience – Emissions
How Is climate change affecting cocoa?
The exposure of cocoa producing regions to extreme climatic events is expected to increase as climate change progresses. Prolonged dry periods and flooding are expected to be the leading determinants of crop productivity and farmer food security (Okoffo, et al. 2016). However, increasing mean temperatures, erratic precipitation, disruption of seasonal patterns, and droughts are also among the potential climate related stressors. Climate change will also affect companion species in agroforestry systems and, perhaps more importantly, cocoa pollinators, pests, and diseases.
Potential Hazards:
- Temperature changes
- Prolonged and intensive rainfall
- Droughts
- Wildfires
- Storms and winds
- Flooding
- Regional challenges
Learn more about each hazard and the potential hazards by region
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Hast du dich in Kino gelangwelt?
Hast du dich in Kino gelangwelt?
Hast du dich in Kino gelangwelt?
Hast du dich im Kino gelangweilt?