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An overview of fair-trade cocoa initiatives is provided. Under Action 9 of its work programme of September 2004, the Consultative Board on the World Economy requested the ICCO secretariat to undertake an analysis of the situation and prospects for fair-trade cocoa and its potential market...
Post forecasts Ghana's cocoa bean production in MY 2011/12 at 1.0 million MT. In 2010/11, Ghana cocoa exports reached a record high of 1,004,000 MT, which is 35.7 percent higher than the last full-year record of 740,000 MT, hit in the 2005-06 season. Ghana continues to maintain its...
Liberalization of tropical agricultural markets has brought globalization, in the sense that all producers now face world rather than domestic prices. Producer prices have tended to rise as a share of fob prices as intermediation costs and tax has declined. However, in conjunction with inelastic...
Côte d’Ivoire is the world’s biggest producer of cocoa, the main ingredient for chocolate. Yet few of the billions of consumers of chocolate around the world are aware of the role that the cocoa trade has played in the armed conflict and political crisis in Côte d’Ivoire in recent years.
As a step toward bringing the cocoa experience into the larger debate about the organization of agriculture and the development of other crops, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) organized a workshop that brought together...
This digital report provides market information on cocoa with among others information on the market, the marketing chain, economic policies. It further pays attention to crop and technology aspects as well.
Ghana is in a good position to profile itself as world leading in sustainable, high quality cocoa, therewith producing cocoa for the top of the market today, in anticipation of the fast growing demand for such cocoa tomorrow. Ghana is well placed to respond to the increased demand for...
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