Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), Ghana

Climate-Smart Cocoa Agroforestry Research in Ghana

Research project The cocoa industry is one of the main pillars of the economies of several countries providing livelihoods for over 50 million people. Climate change is currently the most important threat to cocoa production in Ghana. The result has been strong dryin ... Midterm report Status of objectives, outputs and PhDs Literature reviews and study methodologies under objectives 1, 2, 3 and 4 completed. Under objective 1,and 3, automatic weather monitors, sap flow sensors, data loggers, dendrometers, field ...
Period: 2020-01-2 to 2024-12-31 Countries: Ghana Lead institution: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana Partner institutions: Aarhus University (AU), Denmark University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), Ghana Project code: 19-11-GHA Total grant: 11,719,990 DKK
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Climate smart cocoa systems for Ghana (CLIMCOCOA)

Research project Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is the third highest export commodity of Ghana and represents the most important source of revenue for numerous small scale farmers. Climate change (CC) in the form of higher temperatures and reduced rainfall is expected to ... Midterm report 2019 The three PhD students have done three years of their study and are expected to complete by July 2020. However, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the expected date of completion has been moved to October 2020 by the University of G ...
Period: 2016-06-1 to 2022-12-31 Countries: Ghana Lead institution: University of Ghana (UG), Ghana Partner institutions: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ghana Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Kenya Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), Ghana Project code: 16-P02-GHA Total grant: 9,990,278 DKK
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