GaiaCare

GaiaCare is a local non-profit organization that co-creates and implement sustainability-focused interventions within the Ghana and West-African cocoa landscape. Gaia Care has been set up to support farmers working in the different supply chains (cocoa, oil palm, and cashew) become environmentally conscious and adapt their livelihoods to the changing climate and its demands. We support mitigation and adaptation measures to climate change for farmer livelihoods and sustainability of their environment on which their survival depends. By working with companies, we strive to forge a partnership between suppliers and end-users that is prosperous for both or all parties involved. Our goal is mainly to restore degraded ecosystems through provision of nature-based solutions via community education, empowerment, and supply of needed materials to aid restoration activities. With a strong appreciation of the value of data, we use digital approaches in monitoring all our projects from the onset to the end; tracking progress and challenges along the way. We work with professionals with over decade-worth of experience implementing Agroforestry, livelihoods, improved cookstoves interventions within the Ghana Cocoa Landscape. We aim to work with companies within the supply chain to ensure their products are not (directly or indirectly) causing deforestation, and empower communities to adopt a rather climate-resilient approach to farming that ensures long-term returns on investment. This will in the long run also ensure continuous supply of raw materials needed for companies' businesses to thrive. To this end we support tree tenure engagements and approaches (registration) which ensures planting and ownership of trees planted by farmers.