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The Political Economy of Migration and Conflict in Ghana’s Cocoa Regions: enduring peace or deepening cleavages?, Mitchell, Matthew I. , Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Edmonton, AB, June/2012, Edmonton, Canada, (2012)

For more than a century, migrant labourers have played a pivotal role in Ghana’s cocoa sector. Although this migration constitutes one of the largest movements of labour in sub-Saharan Africa, there is little work that examines the socio-political impact of these flo ws on indigenousmigrant...

Gender factor in the structure and conduct of the cocoa industry in Nigeria, Akinola, G. O. , South African Journal of Business Management, 2005, Volume 36, Issue 11, p.16 - pgs., (2005)

The study revealed that there was gender discrimination against women in access to credit due to their inability to provide collateral security. It was also found that the major marketing problems faced by cocoa marketers included those of pricing, finance, transportation, activities of...

Incentives embedded in institutions: the case of share contracts in Ghanaian cocoa production, Takane, T. , The Developing Economies, 2000, Volume 38, Issue 3, p.374 - 397, (2000)

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...

Economic cost-benefit analysis of certified sustainable cocoa production in Ghana, Victor, A. S., Gockowski J., Agyeman N. F., and Dziwornu A. K. , 48th Agricultural Economists Association of South Africa (AEASA) Conference, 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, p.20 - pgs., (2010)

Ghana is well endowed with premium bulk cocoa and is strategically positioned to capture significant market shares for the growing demand in specialty cocoa products on the world
market. Consumers’ taste and preference for differentiated or ‘specialty’ cocoa based on environmental- and...

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