The cocoa industry is a global multi-billion dollar industry that faces numerous challenges at the farm level. Cocoa is … has been proposed to address many of the challenges faced by cocoa farmers. This paper provides an overview of the cocoa … industry, including past and current initiatives to address issues and inequities in the cocoa market, and an overview of …

This chapter outlines research into the Ethiopian coffee and Ghanaian cocoa industries that sought to determine the …-designation – for Ethiopian coffee and Ghanaian cocoa would likely depend on the economic implications of the establishment of GI …

This paper explores competitiveness of Cote d'Ivoire's economy over a long period of 1960-2003 and its link with cocoa …. Unfortunately, it has also specialized in one export product, raw cocoa. This paper aims to contribute to the question to what … extent do cocoa prices affect Cote d'Ivoire's competitiveness in world trade? Third, the answer to this question is that …

(VSSs) become quasi-mandatory for cocoa producers and grinders to ensure accessto these markets. Yet, their trade effects are … unclear. We study the effect of a VSSon raw and processed cocoa exports. We use a unique dataset that contains the … UTZCertified cocoa production quantity of cocoa-producing countries from 2010 to 2016.This allows us to estimate a gravity model of …

Due to the importance of cocoa in the food industry, there is a greater need to transport this commodity with fewer … rejections and damage to quality. Growing in the tropical areas of the world, cocoa beans travel a considerable distance to their … increasing amount of organizations is being involved in enhancing sustainable methods of farming practices to combat cocoa bean …

An estimated 80,000-100,000 Dominican farmers produce coffee and cocoa, nearly 40 percent of all agricultural producers … activities. The majority of coffee and cocoa producers are small-scale and most are located in environmentally sensitive … exist in the Dominican Republic for the production of high-quality coffee and cocoa. To be competitive and sustainable, some …

This paper explores competitiveness of Cote d'Ivoire's economy over a long period of 1960-2003 and its link with cocoa …. Unfortunately, it has also specialized in one export product, raw cocoa. This paper aims to contribute to the question to what … extent do cocoa prices affect Cote d'Ivoire's competitiveness in world trade?Third, the answer to this question is that cocoa …