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This report aims to enhance understanding of the position of Ghana’s cocoa farmers and their communities with respect to their livelihood in the context of a dynamic chocolate value chain. It deals with a wide range of subjects, including youth employment, youth aspiration, the future...
The pressure on the government and on its marketing institution to improve their efficiency (as measured by the share of the world price going to producers) rather than to seek full liberalization appears to have worked well in Ghana. Given the preponderance of smallholders in the sec- tor and...
With over $6 billion dollars in sales every year, the Hershey Company is one of the world’s largest producers of chocolate and candy products. Hershey’s products are sold in more than 70 countries and include Hershey’s Kisses and Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bars as well as brands such as Reese’s,...
Floristic surveys were performed in 17 traditional cocoa forest gardens under different management regimes in the humid forest area of southern Cameroon, to assess the impact of intensification on plant biodiversity. It was found that management as practiced in traditional cocoa forest gardens...
In Ghana, the liberalization of internal marketing started in 1992 with the introduction of private Licensed Buying Companies (LBCs) as competitors to the state-owned monopoly in buying cocoa from farmers. Thus, Ghana’s state-owned Marketing Board (Cocobod) still controls external marketing....
This paper reports the findings of a survey to elicit information from cocoa farmers on their cocoa farm activities and possibilities of the existence of cocoa trees which have adapted to local conditions, possessing outstanding yields and resistance or tolerance to pests and diseases of cocoa....
In an effort to increase growth. employment and diversify fanner portfolios and exports in Liberia. the government is currently focused on opportunities in smallholder tree crops. Smallholder cocoa has the potential to benefit a wide population of farmers by increasing income opportunities and...
In Ghana, the diversity and density of non-cocoa trees in cocoa farms is primarily the result of farmers’ managing natural processes of regeneration in forest-fallow systems. Tree diversity is therefore more a result of haphazard, uncoordinated decisions over a long period rather than advanced...
By providing technical information on the selection and management of forest trees in cocoa farms, as well as guided decision-making exercises about timber trees in cocoa farms, this manual provides an opportunity for adult learning within Sustainable Tree Crops Program (STCP)’s broader farmer...
This publication was developed by Sustainable Tree Crops Program (STCP) as a guide for trainers involved with participatory training of cocoa farmers. The manual is divided into three sections: (1) section one contains bulletins that provide trainers with technical information on key topics...
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