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Improving the marketing competitiveness of Fine or Flavour cocoa origins (Presentation)

Improving the marketing competitiveness of Fine or Flavour cocoa origins

Reducing the Gender Gap in Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services (Publication)

To realize the gains of reducing gender equality, men and women farmers need access to information, skills and tools to improve yields. However, levels of contact between farmers and extension agents remain relatively low in general, and especially low among women (World Bank, 2010). The...

The Impact of Irrigation on Nutrition, Health, and Gender (Publication)

Few studies have analyzed the impact of irrigation interventions on nutrition, health, and women’s empowerment, despite the large potential of irrigation to affect these important variables. Irrigation interventions may have differential effects on different members in the household and in the...

Resilience in a downturn: The power of financial cooperatives (Publication)

The report notes that financial cooperatives have fared better than the investor-owned banks in times of crisis. Savings and credit cooperatives, cooperative banks and credit unions have grown, kept credit flowing especially to small and medium sized enterprises, and remained stable across...

Reaching high value markets: fine flavor cocoa in Ghana (Publication)

Ghana Fine Flavor Cocoa is a collaborative project involving chocolate manufacturers, international agricultural research institutes, small-scale farmers, and international nongovernmental organizations. Its aim is to design and implement a fine flavor cocoa value chain in
Ghana, to help...

West African Agriculture and Climate Change (Publication)

In a joint effort, International Food Policy and Research Institute (IFPRI) and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), have developed the West African Agriculture and Climate Change monographs. It is the first of three monographs on climate change...

TCC - Cocoa Barometer 2010 (Publication)

The Cocoa Barometer 2010 presents an analysis of the recent market developments in the certified cocoa sector and aims to fuel the ongoing discussions on building capacity and training of cocoa farmers.

The Cocoa Barometer 2010 was used to build shared understanding of the sustainability...

Production changes in Ghana cocoa farming households under market reforms (Publication)

The Ghana cocoa market has been extensively liberalised over the period since the mid-1980s. Two issues have been prominent in microeconomic research on agricultural supply response to liberalisation. The first has been the response to reduced subsidies on inputs, the second whether innovation...

Increasing cocoa productivity through improved nutrition (Publication)

Cocoa is cultivated in more than 40 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Over 90% of global cocoa production cultivated by an estimated 5.5 million smallholders and most live below the poverty line and lack access to nutritious food. This concept brief analyzes cocoa production...

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) (Organization)

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is an alliance driven by the vision of a world without malnutrition. Created in 2002 at a Special Session of the UN General Assembly on Children, GAIN supports public-private partnerships to increase access to the missing nutrients in diets...

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