Ana López García

Ana López García is a Spanish freelance journalist and photographer specialising in human rights, environmental issues, and international relations. She works for various Spanish and European media outlets where she covers politics and human rights through narrative and investigative reporting. As a photographer, she collaborates with Europa Press and Nurphoto. She holds a degree in Political Science and Administration from the University of Valencia and the Institut d’Études Politiques de Lyon, a Master’s in Journalism and Digital Communication, and a Master’s in Sustainable Development and Social Economy from the Université Jean Moulin Lyon III. Her reporting on how cocoa farmers and industry experts in Ghana are adapting to the European Union’s new anti-deforestation regulations was supported by a grant from the Earth Journalism Network.

Can Ghana save its forests without abandoning cocoa farmers?

“We earn around $200 [€175, ed] a month, and every expense has to come out of that,” says Francis Tenor, president of the Boase Sibi cocoa cooperative in Ghana’s Eastern ...