In the global cocoa-chocolate chain, sustainability certification became the most widely applied industry tool to … respond to sustainability challenges, such as extreme poverty among cocoa producers, and related issues of child labor and … as key for a broader sustainability transition. Insights from key informant interviews in two Ghanaian cocoa communities …

Cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire face precarious livelihoods. Low farm-gate prices that are a fraction of the world … paper seeks to understand the drivers of the low pass-through of cocoa prices in the world's largest cocoa-producing country … segments of the in-country supply chain. Our approach couples econometric analyses using secondary cocoa price data and primary …

Purpose This paper aims to assess how cocoa supply chain companies disclose sustainable development goals (SDGs … and reveals leveraging sustainability points in the cocoa industry. Design/methodology/approach The two-step qualitative … them to SDG targets. Findings This study distinguishes 18 SDG targets connected to cocoa traders and 30 SDG targets to …

This handbook aims to help companies identify, prevent and address child labour and forced labour risks, in the cocoa … collaboration with the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI), with financial support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic …

Technical inefficiency persists in Ghana's cocoa farms. Farm‑level guidelines from empirical studies are essential to … inefficiency in the Ghanaian cocoa farms is due to both inefficient utilization of inputs and farmers' inability to operate at the … of smallholder cocoa farmers are crucial for the sustainable growth of Ghana's cocoa sector as farmers' efficiency and …