Achieving a sustainable cocoa economy is beyond the capacity of individual market-led initiatives and quality … certification schemes. In the case of commodity chains like cocoa, due to the involvement of large numbers of poor and relatively … improvement process. The performance of the cocoa value chain like production volumes, product quality and distribution of value …

Ghanaian cocoa processing sectors. Against the backdrop of a comparatively small share of processed cocoa exports and limited … opportunities in the cocoa global value chain, industrial policies should primarily seek to leverage the increasing opportunities in … the processing of cocoa beans. This is particularly important in the context of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs …

Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana against changing inter-firm governance and price-setting institutions in the cocoa GCC. Based on … over 50 interviews with commodity trading houses (CTHs) and cocoa sector actors in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, our analysis … unequal distributional outcomes in GCCs. The paper assesses national price stabilisation in the top cocoa-producing countries …

This study aims to: (1) discover the performance of cocoa farmers in highland areas in South Sulawesi province of … Indonesia, using a approach of four typologies: (2) determine the factors causing the level of cocoa production per hectare per …

Cote d’Ivoire has been at the helm of cocoa production for more than 3 decades. Despite being fraught by occasional … challenges, she is still poised to steer the global cocoa production rudder. To keep the mantle of, we investigate and analyse … some determinants that influence cocoa shortage in Cote d’Ivoire. Employing an ARDL using time series data for a 33-year …

This paper is aimed at identifying complementary sources of income for cocoa farm households in the Central West of … Côte d’Ivoire. Our methodology con- sists of four successive stages: (i) a need assessment of cocoa households and … their social acceptability. It appears that beekeeping and snail breeding are the most appropriate activities for this cocoa …