A farmer-driven organization committed to producing and delivering high-quality, sustainable cocoa—meeting market demands while empowering members and improving their livelihoods.
Kuapa Kokoo is a trailblazer in sustainable cocoa production, ethical and profitable cocoa mobilization, and impactful advocacy for a resilient and prosperous cocoa industry. With a deep commitment to fair trade and farmer empowerment, Kuapa Kokoo champions economic sustainability, social equity, and environmental stewardship—ensuring a dignified and thriving future for its members, their families, and generations to come.
The organization was founded as Kuapa Kokoo Limited in 1993 by a group of cocoa farmers supported by Twin Trading, a UK alternative trade organization, and SNV, the Netherlands Development Organization. This was in response to the partial liberalization of the cocoa industry in Ghana in which the structure was changed from a single government-controlled cocoa purchasing entity to a system in which private companies could take on the role of licensed cocoa buyers. Nana Yaw Frimpong Abebrese, a farmer representative on the Board of the then Ghana Cocoa Marketing Company, gained the support of TWIN, SNV, and Christian Aid and mobilized other farmers to register Kuapa Kokoo Limited.
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