The Executive Director of the African Centre for Environment and Sustainability, Dr Clement Abaidoo, has said that illegal mining (galamsey ... in cocoa production does not only affect the ...

The armed illegal miners threaten farmers, prompting them to reluctantly lease their cashew farms for galamsey operations. The crisis mirrors trends in cocoa-producing regions such as Ashanti ...

And then from export as well, which includes cocoa. Unfortunately, we know we had a cocoa drop by virtue of the events of the galamsey and ... That will affect government, too,” he added.