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

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 …

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 …

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 …

From the early 1960s to the early 1980s, the officially recorded production of cocoa in Ghana declined by 60 percent …. During the 1983–95 Economic Recovery Program, however, cocoa production doubled. Although these developments have inspired … much empirical research, most of the studies have been unable to explain the medium-term persistence of cocoa output to …