Ecosystem Restoration Project
An ongoing insetting programme with PUR that is restoring cocoa landscapes in Central and Western North Regions in Ghana while diversifying and strengthening farmer livelihoods through agroforestry, improved cookstoves construction, beekeeping, and village savings, delivered as one integrated package.
Cocoa expansion has driven deforestation and left farmers exposed to climate stress. Companies sourcing from these landscapes need credible, deforestation-free supply chains - and farmers need resilient, diversified incomes to stay on the land.
We run community nurseries and distribute shade trees for on-farm agroforestry; train local artisans to build improved cookstoves; distribute beehives; and establish Village Savings & Loans groups - all farmer-owned and locally run across the Central and Western North regions.
A restored, better-monitored landscape and measurably stronger livelihoods - trees in the ground with survival tracked, cleaner cookstoves in homes, honey income for producers, and savings groups mobilising capital in rural communities.
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