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Ecuador is one of the world’s leading providers of fine and aromatic cocoa, yet most of Ecuadorian small scale cocoa producers are poor. This is mostly considered to be caused by low agricultural output. This thesis examines a number of additional explanatory facts, with a focus on farm gate...
This study compares the approaches of Fair Trade (FT) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the context of the cocoa industry. FT and CSR converge with respect to their market-based approach, their provision of private regulation in value chains, and their objective to offer a...
Within the last twenty years the link between market organization and development has come under increased scrutiny in response to the implementation of World Bank liberalization policies across many of sub-Saharan Africa’s agriculture markets. Under the neoliberal teachings of the Washington...
This study uses the case of cocoa in Ghana to analyse how governance in international cocoa chains - driven by a combination of concentration, sustainability standards and uncertainty in global sourcing - combines or contrasts with (i) interventions and regulations by the state at the national...
This paper analyzes and compares Nash and Stackelberg optimum export taxes in multi-country Partial Equilibrium (PE) and General Equilibrium (GE) frameworks. Considering the fact that a theoretical GE approach is not possible in a multi-country context, a computable general equilibrium model of...
This paper analyzes the cocoa marketing and pricing policies in Ivory Coast. It looks into the cost of marketing, prices received by the farmers, and examines the producer price stabilization benefits. The authors also analyze the net benefits from a publicly run system of export sales based on...
In this French written paper, with a summary in English, the author compares - although both countries refer to reforms as liberalization- the more or less opposing economic reforms implemented by the two main cocoa producing countries of Ghana and Ivory Coast. In Ghana, liberalization has only...
This paper, written in Portuguese, descripts the process of institutional interchange and conflict negotiation conducted by various stakeholders of the cocoa agroindustrial chain, during the implementation of the “Cocoa Bioplant”, in the state of Bahia, Brazil. The Cocoa Bioplant is the first...
The paper develops a conceptual framework that can help overcome the shortcomings highlighted so far in ‘stand-alone’ value chain, livelihoods and environmental analyses by integrating the ‘vertical’ and ‘horizontal’ aspects of value chains that affect poverty and sustainability. This framework...
Neo-liberal policies increasingly affect African agricultural production and the influence and power of transnational agro-food companies have deepened substantially since the turn of the century. As a consequence the conditions of transactions of many African export crops have been modified or...
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