This paper presents empirical evidence to show how socioeconomic factors affect the adoption of and investment in agrochemicals in the cocoa sector of Côte d’Ivoire. The analysis uses primary farm-level data collected in 2002 from a nationally representative sample of more than one thousand...

This study uses survey data to examine the role of access to credit on cocoa production, in West African cocoa production countries under conditions of agricultural policy liberalization. The study specifies and estimates econometric models to simulate the counterfactual of what cocoa production...

This paper presents empirical evidence to show how socioeconomic factors affect theadoption of and investment in agrochemicals in the cocoa sector of Côte d’Ivoire. Theanalysis uses primary farm-level data collected in 2002 from a nationally representativesample of more than one thousand...