We verify whether cocoa prices could be a source of inflation in five countries of the West African region within a … influence of cocoa prices on consumer price inflation is strong and statistically significant. The influence of the budget …

The paper investigates the extent to which the dollar/sterling exchange rate fluctuations affect coffee and cocoa …

protection systems, has received rare attention in the cocoa and coffee sub-sectors. This study examines the contribution of … mobile phone technology in reducing price distortions in cocoa and coffee production. In addition, we tested stylized facts … distortion in the cocoa and coffee industries. …

Based on a case study of the burgeoning high-end ("Third Wave") coffee market in the United States, this discussion …, and marketers have created a new lexicon of quality for coffee, one tied to narratives of provenance and exclusivity that … creates much of the value added in the coffee trade. This disadvantages smallholding coffee farmers who are heavily invested …

of money managers and more generally of active trading strategies in recent years. We analyze for the commodities coffee …, cotton, soft red winter and hard red winter wheat and WTI and Brent crude oil the effect of both types of financial investors … returns for all commodities; in the bivariate model they only have an effect for coffee. In the bivariate model, we also find …

The dominance of cotton in the irrigated areas of Central Asia has long been criticized for its ecological effects on … dominated by the conventional cotton and wheat rotation introduced after 1991. The second district is home to a wide range of … hands-on experience of harvest mechanisation in the traditional cotton region so far. In addition to the state delivery …

current paper analyses the nature and effects of state regulation in the cotton sector. In the early 2000s, it was considered … host a "cotton cluster". In the following years, private producers and investors turned away from cotton, and cotton area … and output fell substantially. We argue that the cotton sector performance after 2007 shows how ill-designed regulation …

In the beginning of the 1980s, Cameroon witnessed a sustained rate of growth, associated essentially with the boom in … tax system could, therefore, ensure sustainable growth and development in Cameroon. The study aims to contribute to a … better understanding of the evolution of the tax system in Cameroon. In particular, the paper reviews the chronology of the …

areas to facilitate compliance with sustainability standards in coffee, which is the major traditional export crop for … that are dependent on traditional agricultural exports such as coffee need strategies to ensure stability in export … Tanzania. Coffee experienced a dramatic downward trend in world market prices that led to a decreased contribution to foreign …