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. …

this observation and using the West African cocoa-chocolate sector as a case study, we propose the regional …

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 …

paper aims at investigating cocoa farmers' awareness of pension schemes as well as assessing their willingness to … participate in a cocoa pension scheme. A sample of 450 cocoa farmers were interviewed using a structured questionnaire. The … farmers' willingness to pay for pension schemes. From the study, only 43 percent of farmers were aware of the cocoa pension …

Bleakley (2010) finds that large-scale campaigns in the 20th century to eradicate malaria were followed by income gains … robust. Malaria eradication efforts indeed appear to have been followed by anomalous income gains for natives of historically …

Malaria potentially affects everyone in the tropics and sub-tropics, however, the poor and vulnerable are worse …, is one of the worse affected in terms of malaria burden. Given social and economic factors directly relate to malaria … morbidity, global malaria control strategy unfortunately has not particularly targeted the effects of socio-economic deprivation …