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358-Bonsam Bepo REDD+ Cocoa Carbon Landscape Project - Idrecco

Bonsam Bepo REDD+ Cocoa Carbon Landscape Project

Project/Juridiction proponent

NameWebsiteLocation of headquartersOrganization type
The Katoomba Group#http://www.katoombagroup.org/index.php#GhanaNGO/private non for profit
The Nature Conservation Research Centre#http://www.ncrc-ghana.org/#GhanaNGO/private non for profit

Project/Juridiction Partners

NameWebsiteLocation of headquartersOrganization type
Forest TrendsNDGhanaNGO/private non for profit
Ghana Forestry Commission (FC)NDGhanaPublic
University of ReadingNDGhanaResearch/academic institute

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