1 June 2025 · Asetenapa Communications
About 60 per cent of the world's cocoa comes from just two countries: Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. Behind that figure are the farmers whose knowledge and labour make chocolate possible.
Felix Tetteh is one of them. A young Fairtrade cocoa farmer, he manages a two-acre farm in Ghana as a member of the Asetenapa cocoa cooperative.
In a series of short films with Fairtrade America, Felix welcomes viewers onto his farm and explains what being a Fairtrade cocoa farmer actually involves — opening a cocoa pod, walking through the steps of processing beans after harvest, and describing a day in the life of a cocoa farming household.
He is also clear that the harvest has an off-season but farmers do not. That reality is exactly why Asetenapa is building enterprises — cassava and gari processing among them — that earn income across the whole year.
For the union, Felix's story is what Fairtrade certification is for: a young farmer able to speak for his own work, with a cooperative and a trading relationship behind him.
Based on Fairtrade International's impact story and the accompanying Fairtrade America video series featuring Felix Tetteh.
See Felix's story on fairtrade.net