Ghana cocoa farmers reject new 'punitive' land conversion law

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: Ghana cocoa AP - Tsraha Yaw 01:47 Issued on: 01/09/2026 - 16:05 Ghanaian cocoa farmers are ramping up their pushback against a new law preventing them from using their land for anything else without permission. President Mahama says supporting local processing is the key to economic growth. Cocoa chiefs say that the changes still leave the sector resting on an outdated colonial model. Keywords for this article