This study uses survey data to examine the role of access to credit on cocoa production, in West African cocoa … to simulate the counterfactual of what cocoa production would be in the absence of credit facilities. The survey results … show that about 54% of cocoa farmers have access to credit in Nigeria, and respectively 37% in Cameroon, while in Ghana and …

Gravity models were developed to estimate the potential bilateral exports of cocoa under trade liberalization by the … sixteen major cocoa producing countries to the US using panel data from 1989 to 2003. The results indicate that differences … major determinants. Thus, as trade is liberalized, farmers share of the world price of cocoa increases and this raises …

cocoa beans; (ii) the impacts of cocoa export taxes on domestic welfare. In particular, it attempts to develop a two … on Indonesian exports of cocoa beans would indeed divert some of the crop to domestic use. However, this leads to … significant losses to cocoa bean producers and does little to develop a processing sector. Second, interdependence between major …

The deregulation of Ghana’s domestic cocoa supply chain that took place in the early 1990s was expected to bring … finds that price based competition mechanisms did not develop in the resulting domestic cocoa value chain. Rather, the now … increasing numbers of Licensed Buying Companies compete for cocoa supplies based on the provision of different services to …

measures the impact of the first phase of the Cocoa Livelihood Program (CLPI), a current World Cocoa Foundation project … sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The project seeks to improve the livelihood of over 200,000 small cocoa …,048 pre and post CLPI interviews of cocoa producers in Ghana, Cote d’ivoire, Nigeria and Cameroon, the economic impact of the …

Estimates of factors influencing Cameroon's exports of cocoa, coffee and cotton are derived in a system of equations …-integrating vectors involving cocoa and coffee exports as endogenous variables are identified in the system while tests for exogeneity of … by estimates of a restricted error-correction model which lead to acceptance of the hypothesis that cocoa and coffee …

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of collective marketing by FO on cocoa farmer’s price in Cameroun. This … Matching”. Data used come from 2006 IITA cocoa baseline survey conducted between March 15 and April 15, 2006 and concern 601 … cocoa farmers in Centre region in Cameroon during the 2005/2006 season. Results show that collective marketing has a …