Project/Juridiction proponent

Project/Juridiction Partners

Project characteristics

• ID-RECCO ID
  358
• Project status 2022
  TBC
• Project name
  Bonsam Bepo REDD+ Cocoa Carbon Landscape Project
• Secondary name
  Ghana Cocoa Carbon Initiative
• Country
  Ghana
• Last IDRECCO update year
  2020
• Size (in hectare)
  60000
• Start year
  ND
• End year
  2040
• Duration
  30
• Project description
  The aim of the project is to improve long-term livelihoods in Ghana’s cocoa landscapes and to mitigate global climate change through the intensification of cocoa production under higher levels of shade. The project will generate climate finance to pay for efforts to reduce deforestation of neighboring forest reserves and to maintain or increase shade cover by native tree species on cocoa farms. Existing off-reserve cocoa farms will become more efficient, productive, profitable, and resilient, thereby reducing the motivation for farmers to encroach into forest reserve land. The planting of shade trees on cocoa farms as part of the intensification strategy will additionally enhance carbon stocks. On a broader scale, the project aims to demonstrate that Ghana’s cocoa sector can be transformed to produce climate benefits and support the development of local communities, while optimizing productivity to meet increasing demand for cocoa and ensuring the long-term sustainability of cocoa farms and the communities that depend on them. The project is using the Community Resource Management Area (CREMA) approach to enable communities to make decisions on land utilisation and facilitate land-use planning, thus reducing cocoa expansion and encroachment into carbon-rich landscapes. It is expected that at full implementation, the activities within the Bonsambepo landscape will cover 60,000 ha of the cocoa farming landscape (off-reserve) and possibly another 20,000-50,000 ha within the forest reserves.
• Objective 1
  development, social development
• Objective 2
  climate
• Objective 3
  biodiversity conservation
• Deforestation drivers
  illegal logging, infrastructure, local livelihoods, slash and burn agriculture
• Type of forest
  ND
• Project activity
  ARR|REDD
• Project Type
  REDD
• Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activity
  agroforestry
• Multiple locations?
  Yes
• Jurisdiction level 1
  Regions : Brong Ahafo and Western
• Jurisdiction level 2
  District : Juabeso

Carbon accounting

• Crediting period
  ND
• Period to calculate annual carbon credits
• Annual carbon credits
• Total carbon credits
  9000000
• Leakage is expected?
  ND
• Carbon pools included
  ND
• Gasses included
  ND
• Reference period start year
  ND
• Reference period end year
  ND
• Carbon standard 1
  none

Carbon certification

• Carbon standard 1 Progress
  ND
• Carbon standard 1 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 1 Weblinks
  ND
• Carbon standard 1 Expiry date
  ND
• Carbon standard 2
  none
• Carbon standard 2 Progress
  ND
• Carbon standard 2 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 2 Weblinks
  ND
• Carbon standard 2 Expiry date
  ND
• Carbon standard 3
  none
• Carbon standard 3 Progress
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Weblinks
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Expiry date
  ND
• Source of information
  https://s3.amazonaws.com/CCBA/Upload/Revision+and+small/CCB+Standards+for+Smallholders+Case+Studies+July+2012.pdf; http://theredddesk.org/countries/initiatives/cocoa-carbon-initiative ; http://www.katoombagroup.org/incubator/project.php?id=21;

Community level intervention

• Any monetary benefits?
  Check
• Monetary benefit type
  Unclear
• Monetary benefit detail
  Project goal is to link cocoa growers to carbon finance, with revenues presumably based on their farming practices | Revenues will be used for community benefit |
• Provides employment?
  ND
• Are there non-cash benefits?
  Yes
• Economic activities - type
  agroforestry
• Is there tenure clarification?
  Yes
• Is there environmental education?
  No
• Is there forest access restriction or control/monitoring of deforestation?
  Yes
• Is there forest enhancement?
  Yes
• Is there community infrastracture improvement?
  No
• Is there other community benefits?
  No