RESEARCH PROJECT
Climate off-farm rippled impacts on wellbeing and behavioral resilience: cocoa value-added chains in West Africa
Updated: June 2025
Project overview
The official name official name of the project:
Climate off-farm rippled impacts on wellbeing and behavioral resilience: cocoa value-added chains in West Africa
Project start:
January 2024
Ending:
December 2026
Project manager:
Francisco Aguilar
Contact:
Francisco Aguilar
Funded by:
The Swedish Research Council
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Global goals
- 1. No poverty
- 5. Gender equality
- 8. Decent work and economic growth
Short summary
Climate change has direct impacts on farming. These impacts ripple off-farm to also affect the wellbeing of non-farming individuals and families whose livelihoods depend on harvested yields and their co-products.
Our interdisciplinary team of experts from Ghana, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire and Sweden will apply mixed quantitative and qualitative methods to:
- Assess rippled off-farm impacts of drought on individuals along local value-added chains whose wellbeing is highly dependent on cocoa harvests;
- Identify behavioral adaptations to buffer the impacts of past and expected future drought by actors along value chains;
- Determine socially-acceptable interventions that can enhance off-farm climate resiliency.
