Africa Palm Oil Initiative: Training the Trainers in Ghana
Africa Palm Oil Initiative: Training the Trainers in Ghana
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Documentary DP
- Corporate Videographer
- Video Editor - Documentary
Accra, Ghana
$500 - $800 / Day
I am an experienced documentary filmmaker and professional videographer from Accra, Ghana. Over the past ten years, I have documented captivating tales for organisations such the RSPO, Proforest, World Food Programme (WFP), BVRio, Aflatoun International, Fidelity Bank Ghana, and Solidaridad Network. I am the ideal candidate for this project since I have a passion for telling powerful stories and a successful track record. As a videographer, I record events, stories, and moments utilising both artistic and technical talents to frame shots, pick angles, and edit video to achieve certain objectives. I am an important part of using moving pictures to communicate ideas and feelings. I am grateful for the chance to work on the production and am looking forward to bringing this significant tale to life.
Africa Palm Oil Initiative: Training the Trainers in Ghana
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Cocoa is a very important commodity for the economy of Ghana and is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Here, key representatives in the value chain – from farmers growing the cocoa, to the buyers and manufacturers of chocolate – talk about how they are working in partnership with government to deliver transformation in the cocoa industry to secure a resilient, forest friendly and climate-smart supply of this important commodity. This is part of Partnerships for Forests wider work to support regenerative initiatives with cocoa value chain actors to build a more sustainable, more equitable, deforestation-free cocoa sector in West Africa.
Speaking with sustainability experts in Ghana's cocoa sector, the Partnerships for Forests regional team in West and Central Africa explores what is needed to achieve transformational change in landscape governance.
There are more than 20,000 independent smallholder oil palm farmers supplying fresh fruit bunches (FFB) to medium and large scale oil palm processing mills in Ghana. However, these farmers do not receive any training or extension support from the processing mills and even government extension agents. The average yield of these farmers is around 4 tonnes of FFB per ha per year; about 25% of what it could be. Poor agronomy, limited use of fertiliser and use of low yielding planting materials are the main causes for the low yield levels. With increasing demand for RSPO certified palm oil coupled with the fact that smallholder farmers supply more than 70% of FFB required by oil palm processing mills, smallholders will be left out of the supply chain if they did not attain RSPO certification. These farmers however, do not have the capacity to pay for assistance to obtain certification. To ensure that they are integrated into the oil palm supply chain, funding was sought from the RSPO Smallholder Fund to assist 2000 independent smallholder farmers in Ghana to go through the RSPO certification process. Learn more about the RSPO Smallholder Support Fund: https://www.rspo.org/smallholders/int...
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