responses transform the local economy. Taking the case of sustainability certification in the cocoa industry of Ghana, this …In the context of persisting sustainability challenges in the Global Cocoa-Chocolate Chain (GCCC), sustainability …-linked pressures. In the Ghanaian cocoa sector, t sustainability certification became a key tool of competition for farmers among local …

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 …

Through a case-study of cocoa-farming in Ghana, this paper takes up the longrunning but recently neglected debate about …

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 …

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 …

sustainability standards in Ghana's cocoa sector lead to socioeconomic benefits but not to ecological benefits for the plot … approach to understand the simultaneous effects of sustainability standards on socioeconomic and ecological outcomes in Ghana …'s cocoa sector. Our study is based on a rich dataset comprising representative household data from 814 smallholder cocoa …

overview of both the global cocoa-chocolate value chain and the specifics of the cocoa industry in Ghana as well as the …Based on a longstanding colonial history of unequal exchange between the Global North and South, cocoa-based products … about the economic, social and ecological sustainability of cocoa production in the producer countries, located mostly in …

, maize, sorghum, rice and yam) in Ghana. Results of Multivariate Tobit Model show that yield, planting decisions and output …. This peculiar trait of food crop farmers can stifle the future development of the food crop subsector in Ghana. …