[ Updates ]

What has actually happened

A dated record of the project, oldest commitments first. We publish things once they are done — closings, not asks.

  1. Chiefs and elders standing with the QIA team after a community meeting

    September 2026

    Engagement with Ghana's Carbon Market Office

    QIA met Ghana's Carbon Market Office in Accra to align Land Revive and Thrive with the national carbon market framework.

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  2. Residents of a project community gathered on the road outside

    September 2026

    Landowner cooperative formation underway

    The thirty landowners of Land Revive and Thrive are forming a cooperative: the vehicle through which restoration payments, harvest shares and carbon revenue will flow, and through which they hold a collective voice in the project.

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  3. A single cocoa pod ripening on a shaded tree in an established agroforestry plot

    July 2026

    Project documents reach validation grade

    The project's governing documents — the Project Design Document, the financial model and the planting plan — have reached the versions that will carry Land Revive and Thrive into third-party validation under Verra's VM0047 methodology, version 1.1, with Climate, Community & Biodiversity certification at Gold level.

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  4. A queen mother in kente in conversation with a member of the QIA team

    July 2026

    Benefit sharing: the split is written down

    The revenue-sharing model is final and written into the project document. Net carbon revenue divides six ways: 30% to QIA Germany for project operations, 28% direct to enrolled land owners by mobile money, 20% to the Community Carbon Committee development fund, 7% to the Land Owner Cooperative, 5% to the signing village chiefs, and 10% into a joint permanence buffer held in local escrow. Sixty per cent of it is directed locally.

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  5. A QIA staff member standing in the blockwork building going up at the project site

    September 2025

    QIA Ghana established in Sefwi Bekwai

    Our implementing subsidiary is operational in the Western North Region, with a Ghanaian team on the ground, directed by Nana Danso Asare — Paramount Chief of Sefwi Bekwai and custodian of the stool land across much of the project area.

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  6. Galamsey-stripped ground in the project area, a standing pool of water among the ridges and pits left by the workings

    June 2025

    Independent soil baseline testing complete

    Independent laboratory testing of the galamsey-mined ground is complete, carried out by ZALF Berlin — the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research.

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  7. A QIA staff member in a branded shirt at the project site in Sefwi Bekwai

    January 2023

    Quick Impact Agency is registered in Berlin

    Quick Impact Agency e.V. is a registered non-profit association under German law, entered in the Vereinsregister of the Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg under VR 40254 B.

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More entries are being prepared for publication.

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