30 The Hershey Company | 2021 ESG Report Cocoa The Big Picture Our Company Cocoa Responsible Sourcing and Human Rights Environment Our People Youth Community About This Report Promoting Cocoa Promoting Climate-Smart Cocoa Our Impact Agroforestry in Ghana As we help more farmers to gain control of • 46% farmers polygon mapped in Côte d’Ivoire their land, we are also promoting climate-smart and Ghana. In 2021, we improved our data The Kakum Cocoa Agroforestry Landscape So far, the project has developed growing techniques. In 2021, 41% of Cocoa collection and data validation to increase Project engages the chocolate and cocoa management plans covering nearly 40,000 For Good farmers in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana confidence in the numbers reported sector companies along with the Ghana hectares of cocoa, food crop and forest- were trained on climate-smart cocoa using from suppliers. Cocoa Board, Ghana Forestry Commission fallow lands in more than 80 communities a curriculum Hershey helped develop. We • 118,000 hectares of landscape programs and the Nature Conservation Research that border the Kakum National Park. In anticipate expanding access to this training by supported and monitored. Centre. The project fosters sustainability at a addition, the project is implementing cocoa making the content available via a free app. landscape scale — both on farms and across agroforestry activities and climate-smart Cocoa For Good farmers worked on 219,321 For our key cocoa metrics from the surrounding expanse of cocoa and forest interventions that benefit thousands of hectares of cocoa area across seven origins in the year, see page 31. lands — in the environment surrounding cocoa farmers and their communities. This line with sustainable farming practice, including world-renowned Kakum National Park, in includes planting more than 30,000 multi- promoting shade grown agroforestry, specific Ghana’s Central Region. purpose shade tree seedlings since 2018. tree species, tree handling and planting and the The initiative supports the development of Many farmers in these communities have management of trees after planting. Find out an innovative community-based landscape also benefited from income diversification more about our progress against public targets in governance system to improve natural through harvesting and selling kombo nuts. Hershey’s dedicated CFI reports. resource management, reduce deforestation Over the long term, the project will transform and enhance forest protection. At the same the Kakum cocoa-forest landscape toward What’s Next time, it aims to expand cocoa agroforestry a more sustainable agroforestry system, in practices and income diversification through which forests are protected, cocoa farmers We will continue our engagement in our current emerging botanical supply chains. and their families experience improved landscape initiative and are exploring new well-being and empowerment, and socio- landscape initiatives in Côte d’Ivoire. In addition, economic and ecological resilience to we will continue to promote agroforestry, climate change across the landscape is advocating for climate-smart cocoa and strengthened. affordable land titling as well as community-led natural resource management.