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Small-Scale versus large scale cocoa farming in cameroon.pdf (2.01 MB) Smallholding in the cocoa sector has been seen as a hindrance to production and productivity growth due to the ageing of the cocoa farmers limited access to credit, low levels of education and low adoptability of innovations. In order to curb this, policy makers have resorted to implementing...
Strengthening Cocoa farmers association to increase farmers income in pohuwato.pdf (51.29 KB) The objectives of this study are firstly to formulate and to create strategic models of institutional strengthening of cocoa farmer association to increase their income in Pohuwato District of Gorontalo Province, Indonesia. Secondly, to provide a map of potential resources of cocoa plantations...
Baon et al 2014.pdf (70.46 KB) Based on agro-climate factors, most of surrounding area of coal mining sites in Indonesia is suitable for cocoa cultivation. However, most of cocoa farmers in the environs of coal mining sites have little access both to new technology of cocoa cultivation and to market of their cocoa products....
RUG01-002063615_2013_0001_AC.pdf (1.81 MB) Nowadays, cocoa production in Vietnam is developing and expanding its market to many countries. However, no study towards chemical composition and characteristic properties of the cocoa beans has been conducted, thus making the quality of Vietnamese cocoa beans compared to the other world...
csae-wps-2014-03.pdf (439.11 KB) With this study the authors show that a one standard deviation rise in the cocoa price in early life decreases the likelihood of severe mental distress in adulthood by 3 percentage points (or half the mean prevalence) for cohorts born in cocoa-producing regions relative to other regions in Ghana...
Microbial population in malaysian spontaneous cocoa pulp fermentations.pdf (759.24 KB) The fermentation of cocoa pulp is one of the few remaining large-scale spontaneous microbial processes in today’s food industry. The microbiota involved in cocoa pulp fermentations is complex and variable, which leads to inconsistent production efficiency and cocoa quality. Despite intensive...
A product chain organisation study of certified cocoa supply.pdf (299.94 KB) Cocoa supplies may become limited in the future. Demands for sustainable cocoa sparked an exploration of the product chain organisation of conventional and certified cocoa from Ghana. The comparison shows that transparency requirements have led to a more complex product chain. Even so,...
Geographical Indication (GI) options for Ethiopian Coffee and Ghanaian Cocoa.pdf (3.81 MB) This chapter outlines research into the Ethiopian coffee and Ghanaian cocoa industries that sought to determine the potential for the local communities and diverse stakeholders participating in the two industries to benefit from sui generis geographical indications (GIs). The research was...
Productivity Intervention and smallholder farmers (Ghana).pdf (204.54 KB) Despite the dependence of more than three-quarters of a million households on cocoa for their living in Ghana, the production segment of the cocoa industry is fraught with significant challenges manifesting in low farm productivity. Various intervention programs to help farmers improve...
Analysis of Incentives and Disincentives for Cocoa in Ghana.pdf (1.17 MB) This technical note aims to describe the market incentives and disincentives for Cocoa in Ghana.
For this purpose, yearly averages of farm gate and wholesale prices are compared with reference prices calculated on the basis of the price of the commodity in the international market. The...
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