Kuapa Kokoo Ltd - Kumasi - Ghana

The organization was founded as Kuapa Kokoo Limited in 1993 by a group of cocoa farmers supported by Twin Trading, a UK alternative trade organization, and SNV, the Netherlands Development Organization. This was in response to the partial liberalization of the cocoa industry in Ghana in which the structure was changed from a single government-controlled cocoa purchasing entity to a system in which private companies could take on the role of licensed cocoa buyers. Nana Yaw Frimpong Abebrese, a farmer representative on the Board of the then Ghana Cocoa Marketing Company, gained the support of TWIN, SNV, and Christian Aid and mobilized other farmers to register Kuapa Kokoo Limited.