The integration of African smallholders into global commodity chains is often portrayed as an engine for rural transformation that will generate broad-based economic growth and help to eradicate poverty. In this vein, in northern Ghana, the production of shea nuts, the fruit of the...

This brief concept paper proposes a far-reaching institutional reform of the European Union. All EU regions in NUTS1 classification should have local presidential and parliamentary elections. All elected presidents will form the new EU Council with 97 members. This will be the new EU parliament....

This paper examines the determinants of cashew nut exports in Guinea-Bissau. Based on a hybrid export function with both supply and demand components, we estimate a time series Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model from 1973 to 2020. The main short- and long-run determinants of cashew...

Purpose: This paper examines the economics of cashew nut processing in Ondo state using JOF Ideal Family Farms Limited, Owo as a case study. It specifically examined the socio-economic characteristics of the workers of the company, the by-products derived from cashew nuts processing and the...