Kuapa Kokoo Cooperative Cocoa Farmers and Marketing Union Limited is Ghana’s pioneer and the leading producer of ethical cocoa beans. The Union has over 100,000 registered members who are primarily smallholder cocoa farmers organized into about 1,300 communities in 57 primary Societies (District) in six cocoa growing regions. It was established in 1993 with 2000 farmers in response to the partial liberalization of the cocoa