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A central objective of this paper is to further develop certain of the central categories of Global Commodity Chain (GCC) analysis and to apply them, first to a general consideration of what will be called ‘international trader-driven’ GCCs, and then to two GCCs for primary commodities emanating...
Resilience in a downturn ILO.pdf (653.94 KB) 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...
Global commodity chain (GCC) analysis has been concerned mainly with examining power relations in global manufacturing industries, although it has been preoccupied increasingly by the question of how developing country (DC) producers can upgrade. This paper extends GCC analysis to ``traditional...
This article has utilized some of the key concepts of convention theory to further our understanding of governance in global value chains. It has shown that the historical trend from hierarchical to tendentially looser forms of coordination between lead firms and their suppliers (or buyers), and...
This paper addresses the question why SSA economies have performed relatively poorly in terms of global export performance despite these structural changes in the inward-outward incentive system? It uses one of the production-oriented approaches, that is, the recent advances in the global value...
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...
This study examined the competitiveness of cocoa exports by assessing the export performance and determinants of cocoa export from Nigeria. It was found that Nigeria has comparative advantage. World export volume, exchange rate and Nigerian cocoa output were determinants of cocoa export from...
The author of this paper argues that the price incentive to smuggle can explain as much as one-half of the observed decline in official output from cocoa from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s. And, although it recovered in the 1990s, it is still below peak levels. The analyis is supported by a...
This paper assesses the impact of partial liberalization in Ghana's cocoa market on output in that sector. It is argued that the extent to which reforms fostered competitive village-level oligopsonies among Licensed Buying Companies has been an important determinant of producer productivity....
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