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Innovative Teaching of Cocoa for the Future: Using Indigenous Knowledge to Build Climate-Resilient Cocoa Education for Ghanaian Youth

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Clé publique

doi:10.26765/drjafs13474592

Auteurs

Dickson Adom

Année déclarée

2026

Langue déclarée

en

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article

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2026-11-09T19:07:04.388335+00:00

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2026-11-09T19:14:49.900782+00:00

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This short communication was developed from a presentation by the author at the 2026 Cocoa Leadership Bootcamp jointly organized by Earth Care Ghana in partnership with Real-Ento, Kasetsart University in Thailand, Rights of Nature Ghana Movement, and the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG). It describes the current problems facing Ghana's cocoa sector, which comprises an aging workforce, youth reluctance to engage in the sector, and the use of Western models for teaching that ignore indigenous knowledge for cocoa production. It discusses the need to adopt a radical approach of using indigenous knowledge in promoting a climate-resilient cocoa education targeted at Ghanaian youth. It highlights the need to consciously teach Ghanaian youth about traditional cocoa production and its valid scientific procedures. It positions indigenous knowledge in cocoa production as a window in understanding the lived experiences of cocoa farmers and as a step in understanding the unique micro-climate conditions of cocoa communities. It refutes the thought that indigenous knowledge stands in a binary position to modern science and calls for a synergistic approach to Ghana's cocoa production by building on the strengths of traditional and modern cocoa production techniques. It contends that Ghanaian youth can be attracted to the cocoa sector if their education factors in indigenous cocoa production techniques, migrates from theoretical overload, and focuses on discovery learning that prioritizes hands-on activities which simulate the agrarian situation in the real world. It calls for the adoption of a teacher-as-farmer community-based model, field-based teaching, a tech-tradition hybrid innovations model, and a cross-sector framework as the surest path in building a climate-resilient cocoa education for Ghana's youth.

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DOI

10.26765/drjafs13474592

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W7162012434

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• DOI · https://doi.org/10.26765/drjafs13474592
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