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This paper was presented at the Regional Forum on Food Sovereignty, held in Niamey, November 2006. The authors discuss the question whether ECOWAS could create an OPEC for sustainable cocoa. They say that export crops can fit in a strategy that prioritizes the protection of domestic food crops,...
The restructuring of the world cocoa market has concluded with the liberalization of the sector in the world's leading producing country, Cote d’Ivoire, clearing the way for domination by an oligopoly of global companies. This paper describes how Ivory Coast's share of world production created...
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 study argues that besides price incentives, local institutions such as land tenure systems and agrarian contracts provide strong incentives and disincentives to agricultural production as well. Price incentives need to be placed in wider incentive structures embedded in the complex...
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