Predicting the Impact of Climate Change on the Cocoa-Growing Regions in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire

This document is one of three reports on the methods and results of a consultancy with the title 'Predicting the impact of climate change on cocoa, cashew and cotton growing regions in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire' conducted by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF).This report focuses on cocoa but also summarises the impact of climate change on chashew and cotton growing. It aims to inform the private-public partnership (PPP) project titled 'Cocoa Livelihoods Project' (CLP) and the cocoa sector in particular, but all supply chain actors in other sectors as well

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Predicting the Impact of Climate Change on the Cocoa-Growing Regions in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire