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So far, comprehensive studies have yet to be conducted on the total content variation of phenol and flavonoid and of gallic acid and epicatechin. Moreover, no study has explored the content and composition of free amino acids in commercially fermented and dried cocoa from different origins. To...

In a joint effort, International Food Policy and Research Institute (IFPRI) and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), have developed the West African Agriculture and Climate Change monographs. It is the first of three monographs on climate change...

Production changes in Ghana cocoa farming households under market reforms, Teal, Francis, and Vigneri Marcella , Growth, poverty reduction and human development in Africa, 2004///, (2004)

The Ghana cocoa market has been extensively liberalised over the period since the mid-1980s. Two issues have been prominent in microeconomic research on agricultural supply response to liberalisation. The first has been the response to reduced subsidies on inputs, the second whether innovation...

Cocoa is cultivated in more than 40 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Over 90% of global cocoa production cultivated by an estimated 5.5 million smallholders and most live below the poverty line and lack access to nutritious food. This concept brief analyzes cocoa production...

To satisfy continued growth in food demand without further degrading the natural environment, African farmers and policy-makers must pursue ‘sustainable agricultural intensification’ (SAI). African governments and donors should invest in both institutions and infrastructure and follow a middle...

Extension as an activity is traditionally viewed as a means of transmitting knowledge to farmers by extension institutions. Extension activities are not the preserve of extension institutions alone. Research institutions, input distributors, produce buying agencies, non-governmental...

Interactive communication between extension agents and cocoa farmers in Ghana is critical to the effort to raise farm-level productivity. This study sought to investigate the perceptions of extension agents on how prepared they are for their jobs, the support they receive from their employer and...

In this study, as part of the cocoa selection process, the farmers’ knowledge of cocoa planting materials in two major cocoa growing areas of Cameroon is considered. Two surveys were carried out in farmers’ fields to assess the agronomic profile of their cocoa planting materials, their...

Sulawesi is currently the largest cocoa producing area in the Asia/Pacific region. This Indonesian island was one of the first places where cocoa was introduced into Asia in the 17th century. Because there have been many different subsequent introductions since then, cocoa planting materials in...

This paper summarises the findings of a survey conducted among 102 cocoa farmers in five growing regions of Trinidad in 2005-2006. It was undertaken by the Research Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Marine Resources (MALMR) as a planned activity within the project CFC/ICCO/...

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