A new partnership launched by Fairtrade International, Fairtrade Africa, and non-profit organization Earthworm Foundation will work together to monitor deforestation and assess environmental vulnerability. Using Starling, a satellite monitoring tool developed by Earthworm Foundation and Airbus, the pilot project aims to capture critical deforestation data within Fairtrade cooperatives and their smallholder cocoa farmers in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire to support these communities in better management of forest landscapes. The partnership, which comes amid the European Commission’s push to ban imports of cocoa, coffee and other commodities when production is associated…
Read MoreFairtrade and Earthworm Foundation Join Forces in ‘Landmark’ Partnership to Combat Deforestation
