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Market study of fine flavour cocoa - revised version.pdf (3.07 MB) This research was conducted to produce a mapping of the fine flavour cocoa (FFC) market for 11 countries of interest in Latin – America, Asia and Africa, and to define the potential of fine flavour cocoa for these countries. The research focussed on the varieties of fine flavour cocoa, the...
effect of extraction conditions on the yield and chemical properties of cocoa.pdf (290.22 KB) The use of citric acid as an extractant could boost the industrial recovery of pectin from waste cocoa husks that are generated during cocoa production, say researchers. In this research, different extraction conditions were applied to investigate the effect of temperature, extraction time and...
Quality Incentives in Informal Markets The Case of Ecuadorian Cocoa.pdf (222.42 KB) We investigate the economic importance of implicit quality incentives in an agricultural market that lacks the institutional capacity for measuring quality verifiably. We measure the magnitude of implicit price premiums for quality, and we distinguish empirically between hedonic-pricing and...
TCC_COCOA_Barometer 2010 (final).pdf (1.58 MB) The Cocoa Barometer 2010 presents an analysis of the recent market developments in the certified cocoa sector and aims to fuel the ongoing discussions on building capacity and training of cocoa farmers.
The Cocoa Barometer 2010 was used to build shared understanding of the sustainability...
GAIN_Cocoa publication.pdf (486.13 KB) 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...
The Orton catalog contains information on general agriculture, forestry and agroforestry, animal science, natural resources, biodiversity, sustainability, soil, coffee, cocoa and related sciences with an emphasis on non-conventional literature. The number of full-text cocoa documents is well...
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 current trend to reduce or eliminate shade cover in cocoa farming raises concerns about the potential loss of biodiversity. Few studies have assessed the ecological consequences and economic trade-offs under different management options in cocoa plantations. The authors in this article...
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...
In Nigeria, credit access is a major problem among rural farming households due among others to lack of adequate collateral. The availability of social capital to households has been known to remove the problems associated with collateral hence improving the poor’s access to credit. This study...
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