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After reaching historic highs in 2024 and early 2025 – when cocoa was dubbed “better than bitcoin” – cocoa prices recently crashed again, leaving farmers in distress.
Implementation of anti-deforestation legislation led by the...
01/04/2026
As cocoa prices surge, two new studies reveal that the new frontiers of cocoa production in Central Africa are seeing women’s rights trampled and rising deforestation. Tyala Ifwanga argues that the EU’s much delayed...
10/03/2026
Harms linked to cocoa production – deforestation, child labour, farmers not paid a living wage – have long been documented, especially in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, the world’s two leading cocoa producers. Recent studies by Fern...
04/03/2026
As the Cameroonian NGO celebrates its 30th year defending forest peoples and forests, founder and longest-standing Fern partner Samuel Nguiffo looks back on the CED’s evolution.
We have had the good fortune, sometimes, to be...
10/12/2025
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On 17 June 2025, the European Parliament (EP) plenary voted to terminate the EU-Cameroon Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA). The unilateral nature of this step – the...
10/07/2025
The EUDR will enter into force at the end of 2025, following a one-year delay, but there is evidence that it has already triggered political efforts to better protect forests in tropical and EU forested countries.
This...
23/06/2025
Sadly, a company that acts with nonchalance in the absence of authorisations is nothing unusual. What is more remarkable, is when learning that it will not be able to sell the proceeds of its activities on the EU market brings...
12/12/2024
The acute problems blighting the cocoa trade in Côte d’Ivoire are at risk of spreading like a contagion into Central Africa. But the EUDR can help smallholder growers understand the broader context in which they operate and better...
18/09/2024
Despite the efforts, the endless talks, and the international agreements, large-scale industrial deforestation continues unabated in Cameroon, nudged along by the Cameroonian government and under the tolerant gaze of international...
07/05/2024
The EU must use the tools at its disposal to encourage Cameroon to save Ebo forest
12/12/2023
