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Baseline study report on Cocoa producers’ livelihood perceptions in five pilot areas in Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria.pdf (3.72 MB) The CCE project is a capacity development project for the cocoa sector between the development agencies GIZ (providing the project management), the Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) and Solidaridad, the voluntary standards organizations Fairtrade International (FLO), Rainforest Alliance...
Market Discrimination, Market Participation and Control over Revenue. A gendered analysis of cameroon's cocoa producers.pdf (1.28 MB) Using micro level data from Cameroon this paper applies the theories of intrahousehold bargaining to models in which farmers decide whether to take up cocoa marketing on their own or to rely on others. Depending on their decision, sharing rules are shaped within the household on who controls...
Cultural elements and women subservient roles among cocoa farm families in southwest nigeria. implications for HIV prevention strategies.pdf (238.04 KB) This paper investigated subservient roles and cultural elements that situate women in cocoa farm families in south-western Nigeria to HIV/AIDS. More importantly, women practice of some HIV/AIDS prevention strategies; abstinence, condom use, status check, safe sex, avoid untreated sharp objects...
The different methods of cocoa farming in southeastern Bahia, Brazil.pdf (1.02 MB) Cocoa farming (Theobroma cacao L.) was introduced in the State of Bahia, Brazil, in 1746 and was disseminated especially in its southeastern region. This research identified the main cocoa farming methods adopted in that region over time, highlighting its practices, aspects of their historical...
Reconfiguration of the cocoa industry and poverty reduction in Cote D'Ivoire.pdf (1.53 MB) The aim of this paper is to study the Ivorian cocoa supply chain to determine ways to improve the financial windfall share (generated by the cocoa industry), which returns to Cote d’Ivoire through local actors. To achieve this goal, we made a descriptive analysis and schematized the different...
Open-Data-Barometer-2013-Global-Report.pdf (4.54 MB) The Open Data Barometer aims to uncover the true prevalence and impact of open data initiatives around the world. It analyses global trends, and also ranks countries and regions via an in-depth methodology that considers: readiness to secure the benefits of open data; actual levels of...
The Role of Cooperative Organizations in Rural Community.pdf (130.16 KB) Cooperative organizations serves as an effective rural community development vehicle by their nature they build economic self reliance and civil society. The paper examined the historical development of cooperative organizations that is how friendly societies emerged among working class group to...
Ayenor 2004.pdf (135.56 KB) A diagnostic study was conducted to identify the major constraints on organic cocoa production at
Brong-Densuso and surrounding communities in the Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District, Eastern Region,
Ghana. The study followed a technographic study that highlighted cocoa as a public crop...
Cocoa Driver of deforestation in the DRC.pdf (9.71 MB) The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) accounts for the largest part of the Congo Basin forest: two-thirds (some 155 million hectares) are forested and 69 percent of which is dense humid forest. With a surge in world market commodity prices for cocoa in 2008 and a steady 2-5% annual increase...
Challenges of Farmers innovativeness in central zone, Tigray, Ethiopia.pdf (522.4 KB) Transformation of agriculture is essential for sustainable growth and
national progress of developing countries. To be successful in achieving this
objective Extension worker, researchers, development practitioners, and
institutions involved in rural development have to play a...
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