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Young people, agriculture, and employment in rural Africa.pdf (656.43 KB) This paper examines the current interest in addressing the problem of young people’s unemployment in Africa through agriculture. Using notions of transitions and mobilities we set out a transformative work and opportunity space framework that privileges difference and diversity among work...
A comparative study of effects of drying methods on quality of cocoa beans.pdf (467.82 KB) The study was conducted in order to determine and compare the effects of drying methods on quality of fermented cocoa beans. Drying was carried out using two different methods namely oven drying and sun drying methods. Samples were dried at five different oven temperatures of 35, 40, 45, 50 and...
Agro-Logistics for Nutmeg & Cocoa Exports from Grenada.pdf (2.29 MB) This study of the logistics chain for cocoa and nutmeg exports from Grenada is designed to build a link between the study and improvement of agriculture and that of logistics for agricultural exports, and complements the Grenada Small Farmer Vulnerability Reduction project. The overall objective...
Small-Scale versus large scale cocoa farming in cameroon.pdf (2.01 MB) Smallholding in the cocoa sector has been seen as a hindrance to production and productivity growth due to the ageing of the cocoa farmers limited access to credit, low levels of education and low adoptability of innovations. In order to curb this, policy makers have resorted to implementing...
csae-wps-2014-03.pdf (439.11 KB) With this study the authors show that a one standard deviation rise in the cocoa price in early life decreases the likelihood of severe mental distress in adulthood by 3 percentage points (or half the mean prevalence) for cohorts born in cocoa-producing regions relative to other regions in Ghana...
Productivity Intervention and smallholder farmers (Ghana).pdf (204.54 KB) Despite the dependence of more than three-quarters of a million households on cocoa for their living in Ghana, the production segment of the cocoa industry is fraught with significant challenges manifesting in low farm productivity. Various intervention programs to help farmers improve...
Analysis of Incentives and Disincentives for Cocoa in Ghana.pdf (1.17 MB) This technical note aims to describe the market incentives and disincentives for Cocoa in Ghana.
For this purpose, yearly averages of farm gate and wholesale prices are compared with reference prices calculated on the basis of the price of the commodity in the international market. The...
An Analysis of Yield Gap and Some Factors of cocoa yields in ghana.pdf (461.66 KB) Although cocoa productivity has recently been increasing in Ghana, it is still low compared with that of other countries such as Cote d’Ivoire and Malaysia. This situation has been attributed to the low adoption of cocoa production technologies. The study was aimed at analysing the yield gap as...
In September 2012, the Citi Foundation and the Rainforest Alliance undertook Farmer Bankability and Sustainable Finance: Farm-level Metrics that Matter, a study designed to better understand farmer capacity and performance with regard to financial administration, as well as any bankability...
RootingOut_CL_fromCcoca_Farms_No2_En.pdf (304.74 KB) The problems related to agricultural child labour are particularly acute in sub-Saharan Africa, where nearly 30 per cent of all children under the age of 15 are thought to be working. International media attention at the beginning of the decade on the use of child labour in cocoa farming in West...
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