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THE ROLE OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE-PARTNERSHIPS IN FEED THE FUTURE: A CONTRIBUTION OF ACI TOFEED THE FUTURE: A CONTRIBUTION OF ACI TO

A SUSTAINABLE COCOA INDUSTRY IN GHANA

ANTHONY FOFIE, CHIEF EXECUTIVE GHANA COCOA BOARDCHIEF EXECUTIVE, GHANA COCOA BOARD

WCF PARTNERSHIP MEETING & ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS – JUNE 13-14, 2012

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INTRODUCTION• The Ghana cocoa industry is more than 100 years oldThe Ghana cocoa industry is more than 100 years old..

• There are remarkable achievements, challenges and opportunitiesopportunities.

• Useful lessons learned.

• Policy reviews and paradigm shift to concept of Public Private• Policy reviews and paradigm shift to concept of Public-Private-Partnership(PPP).

• Challenge: achieving a sustainable cocoa production through high farm• Challenge: achieving a sustainable cocoa production through high farm productivity and successfully leaving more land resources for food production.

• PPP features in several areas of operations notably:- Cocoa production and extension- Input supply servicesp pp y- Internal Cocoa Marketing

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PPP IN PRODUCTION, EXTENSION SERVICES AND INPUTS SUPPLY

• Cocoa production is a private led enterprise involving about approximately 0.6 million farmers.

• COCOBOD, in regulating the industry, needs several , g g y,partners including ACI to support farmers to achieve higher and sustainable production.

• Key areas are pests and diseases control, development and provision of improved planting materials and extension services to disseminate technologiestechnologies.

• Inputs (fertilizers and pesticides) are needed in communities on time to avoid use of inappropriate ones which may lead to residues.

• Appropriate diagnosis of soil fertility problems will contribute to rational• Appropriate diagnosis of soil fertility problems will contribute to rational use of fertilisers to enhance efficient utilisation of scarce resources.

• The ACI project is targeting soil fertility diagnoses to address indiscriminate use of fertilisers 3indiscriminate use of fertilisers. 3

PPP IN INTERNAL MARKETING OF COCOA AND OTHER PPP

• Internal cocoa marketing is liberalized. • Internal cocoa purchasing, haulage operations and shipment

i d t b b t 29 li d b i i (LBC ) d lare carried out by about 29 licensed buying companies (LBCs) and several haulage companies under close regulation of Quality Control Company accounting for the success of Ghana’s cocoa marketing model.

• In collaboration with the WCF and the Hershey’s Company of the USA, we introduced the CocoLink project in Ghana: a farmer extension and education project that uses the mobile telephone platform to send technical information in a two-waythat uses the mobile telephone platform to send technical information in a two way direction, ensuring that the information reaches the farmer when needed most. WCF has supported capacity building in local soap making with cocoa by-products in rural communities, organic farmers in the testing of mirid pheromones and two researchers benefitting from Norman Borlo g fello ships for researchresearchers benefitting from Norman Borloug fellowships for research.

• The Kraft Foods/Cadbury is equally involved in several areas of the Ghanaian cocoa sector in the provision of extension services to support sustainable cocoa productionsector in the provision of extension services to support sustainable cocoa production. 4

PPP IN FEED THE FUTURE PROJECT & CONCLUSIONS

Specifically, the ACI project will, among others, contribute to:

• Rapid transformation of the current system of cocoa production practices.

• Improved accessibility of planting materials and other cocoa agro inputs• Improved accessibility of planting materials and other cocoa agro-inputs which are important to sustainable cocoa production.

• Institutional capacity development to ensure effective delivery of p y p yessential services to the industry.

• In a nutshell, the ACI partnership is a sign of positive externality in knowledge transfer and improved incomes These partnership will helpknowledge transfer and improved incomes. These partnership will help build farmer capacity in food production and adoption of good farm management practices: key ingredients in sustainable production.

• In such partnerships, challenges are not unexpected and the partners have been resolute in their efforts to address them.

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