Togo
Context
Togo joined the FFF programme in 2019.
A key implementing partner is CTOP (Coordination Togolaise des Organisations Paysannes et de Producteurs Agricoles), an apex organization representing over 500 000 smallholder farmers.
Togo faces significant challenges of deforestation and land degradation, which threaten rural livelihoods and biodiversity. In response, the government has committed to restoring 1.4 million hectares of forested landscapes by 2030, under the AFR100 Initiative.
The FFF operates across Togo’s five contrasting regions – ranging from coastal to savannah. FFF support includes infrastructure and equipment upgrades such as the installation of a shea butter production unit, solar-powered boreholes to improve production quality and provide access to drinking water, and tricycles to facilitate product transport to markets. Through CTOP’s National Center for Incubation and Support of Agricultural and Forestry Cooperative Enterprises (CNIEAF), the FFF supports producers to develop value-added activities to diversify their incomes.
Training in building climate resilient landscapes is also central with producer organizations building capacity in the protection, restoration, and sustainable management of their land through agroforestry and climate-smart practices.
In 2025, FFF Togo FFF Togo supported 17 FFPOs (as well as two government partners and an apex FFPO) representing up to 1 683 households.
Contacts
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Products
Key products produced in Togo include cassava, groundnut, maize, rice, soy, fruit and vegetables, poultry, moringa powder, néré, mustard, cereals, shea products, cashew products, honey, coffee, cocoa, soap, forest seeds and tree seedlings.
Highlights
- Strengthening governance
Training in governance, financial management, and advocacy, have led to the formalization of 85 cooperatives and one union. FFF also supported the creation of a business incubation centre within CTOP to help cooperatives develop profitability plans, boost operational performance, improve financial sustainability. In total, over 750 cooperatives have benefited of which 92 are supported by the FFF.
- Securing land access
Through advocacy for a 99-year land lease and FFF support, 50 women from Essodoguedowe Cooperative, who previously lacked secure access to land, now each manage two hectares of cashew plantations, totalling 100 hectares. Initially, these agroforestry systems are expected to produce over 50 tons of cashew nuts, rising to over 200 tons at full production.
- Resilience and restoration
Forest and farm producers supported by the FFF have contributed to the restoration or sustainable management of over 4 325 hectares of forests and agricultural land. More than 21 179 people including 47% women and 38% young people have benefited from this activity through improved livelihoods, better nutrition and stronger climate resilience.
Press articles
- FAO-FFF Togo/ Coffee and Cocoa Sector: The OPFA capacity building project and the CHOCOLAND project launched in Akebou (in French)
- FAO awarded new grants to 6 forest and agricultural producer organizations - June 26, 2020 (in French)
- AgriDigitale: Soap and compost made from cocoa pods (in French)
- Togo: Farmers' organizations equipped with the Market Analysis and Development approach in Aného, August 21, 2019 (in French)
- Togo: Forests and Farmers Facility: CTOP equips forest and agricultural producer organizations (in French)
- Forests and Farm Facility (FFF): Phase II launched in Togo - 12 April 2019 (in French)
- FFF resource management: CTOP trains producer organizations in Atakpamé - 10 August 2019 (in French)
- Forest and Farm Facility launched in Togo, 13 Avril 2019
- Yes to income, no to forest destruction - 12 April 2019 (in French)