This paper analyses the impact of increases in the price of two primary products - coffee and cocoa - on the growth of the national and regional economies in Brazil. It aims at explaining the factors that have determined salutary effects in the coffee region and negligible effects in the cocoa...

This paper describes the process of institutional interchange and conflict negotiation conducted by various stakeholders of the cocoa agroindustrial chain, during the implementation of the "Cocoa Bioplant", in the state of Bahia, Brazil. The Cocoa Bioplant is the first unit, in the world, to...