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A survey was conducted among 280 cocoa farmers from 2001-2003, in six main cocoagrowing regions of Côte d’Ivoire (Abengourou, Aboisso, Divo, Gagnoa, Daloa and Soubré). The survey sought to determine farmers’ knowledge, preferences, selection and the use of cacao planting material. Farmers were...
The Guinean rain forest (GRF) of West Africa, identified over 20 years ago as a global biodiversity hotspot, had reduced to 113,000 km² at the start of the new millennium which was 18% of its original area. The principal driver of this environmental change has been the expansion of extensive...
This study describes the status of the adoption of various chemical inputs and uses a multiplicative heteroscedastic Tobit model to identify and quantify the impact of the socioeconomic environment on the incentive to invest among cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire. It was found that farmer,...
This paper presents an empirical study of the production efficiency of farmers in the West and Central African cocoa sector using cross-countries data of the 2002 Sustainable Tree Crop Program (STCP) baseline survey. Different stochastic frontier models are used for cocoa farmers in four...
Data from Cameroon show that improved tenure security over cocoa fields increases farmers’ consumption and welfare, but at the expense of more deforestation. The introduction of new cocoa varieties with faster maturity and higher input response also unambiguously raises farmers’ consumption and...
This paper assesses the impact of a national spraying exercise in 2001 by the Ghana government to control the spread of the black pod disease and cocoa pests, free of charge, with the aim of increasing yield. Nine years after implementing the project under CODAPEC, Ghana has seen an upsurge in...
The study assessed the effect of hybrid cocoa varieties on land productivity of 366 randomly selected cocoa farmers in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The results confirm the expectation about the effect of improved technologies on the performance of cropping systems. Land productivity is shown to...
The main purpose of this study was to analyze the economic efficiency of resource utilization in cocoa production of the cocoa farmers in Ghana to provide information for effective application and management of farm inputs on cocoa farms and policy recommendation. A random sample of 300 farmers...
A synthesis of the thesis of Harounan Kazianga, Adoption of Improved Cocoa Technologies in Cameroon, Purdue University, Department of Agricultural Economics, West Lafayette, IN, 2002; for USAID. It looks at the technology alternatives to Cameroonian farmers and indicates one policy mechanism to...
By means of literature research, an overview and analysis was made of the systemic requirements of several sustainability standard systems. This analysis showed common practices of sustainability standard systems. Expert interviews provided information about the barriers and success factors in...
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