RESEARCH NEEDS FOR SUSTAINABLE COCOA PRODUCTION IN GHANA

There are several challenges that any project will face in its implementation and an enhanced understanding of how to handle these issues can improve future endeavours. Many project seem to fail to create an impact that lasts, which thus reduces project sustainability and monitoring and evaluation is often lacking in the long term. Stakeholder collaboration is an important but sometimes difficult component of projects. Besides, ollaboration with the private sector is mentioned as both an opportunity and a threat. Moreover, any project should think about how and what contribution to policy dialogue it can create on the issues that the project addresses. Finally, there seems to be a lack of a clear understanding of future land-use scenarios which are important for long term project planning.

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