GHG emissions baseline and development of a mitigation strategy in cocoa and cashew supply chains Ivory Coast

Context of the service

For over 45 years, PROPARCO, a subsidiary of the AFD Group, has been supporting private sector stakeholders in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. As part of its initiatives, PROPARCO also implements technical assistance programmes designed to help its clients measure and reduce their carbon footprint. In this context, SalvaTerra and SUEZ are supporting a PROPARCO client operating in the cocoa and cashew sectors in Côte d’Ivoire. These two crops, which are essential to the national economy and for a large part of the Ivorian population, are also associated with carbon emissions throughout their supply chains, including deforestation linked to plantations, soil degradation, the use of inputs, and emissions generated during transport, processing and energy production. The aim of the support is to assess greenhouse gas emissions across both supply chains and to identify concrete actions for carbon reduction and sequestration.

Services provided

The mission is structured around three main activities:
1. Carbon footprint baseline
- Mapping of the cocoa and cashew supply chains
- Data collection: land-use change (GIS and remote sensing), agricultural practices (surveys in partnership with the University of Daloa), transport, processing sites
- Development of a tailor-made tool compliant with the GHG Protocol to quantify emissions.
- Identification of emissions hotspots
2. Development of a GHG reduction strategy
- Development of a simplified tool to estimate potential reductions
- Proposal of measures targeted at emissions hotspots, prioritised according to technical, economic and social feasibility, cost-benefit analysis and potential for adoption. This stage includes conducting interviews with producers (in partnership with the University of Daloa)
- Assessment of the co-benefits of regenerative agricultural strategies (biodiversity, soils, etc.).
3: Capacity Building for both tools

Summary of the service

GHG emissions baseline and development of a mitigation strategy for the cocoa and cashew supply chains
Technical assistance for a private export company. GHG emissions baseline using a tailor-made tool compliant with the GHG Protocol and data collection. Estimation of potential reductions using a second tailor-made tool, prioritisation (feasibility, cost-benefit, adoption) of strategies targeting hotspots, and identification of co-benefits. Capacity building.