Hettig, Elisabeth; Lay, Jann; Treeck, Katharina van; … - 2017
smallholder cocoa farmers in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, covering the years 2000, 2006 and 2013. We show that – over the analyzed … time horizon of more than 10 years – cocoa cultivation is associated with strong and sustainable poverty reduction. Cocoa … farmers fare better than non-cocoa farmers and the welfare gains can mainly be attributed to increasing cocoa yields. Yet …