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Pierre Etoa presentation.pdf (880.73 KB) What challenges are facing Cocoa internationally?
Partnerships intervening in global food chains The emergence of co creation in standard setting and certification.pdf (355.29 KB) In the agri-food sector, global partnerships between lead firms and international NGOs design standards that aim to enhance environmental sustainability and to some extent realise social justice. However the effectiveness of such standards is limited when their content and governance provokes...
SOLOMON ISLANDS COCOA VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS.pdf (1.83 MB) The objective of this value chain analysis is to identify the most promising opportunities for increasing the contribution that the sale of cocoa can make to rural livelihoods and the national economy. The analysis aims to map cocoa value chains, focused on elaborating practical pathways to...
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...
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,...
Assessing the Challenges and Implementation of Supply Chain Integration in the Cocoa Industry a factor of Cocoa Farmers in Ashanti Region of Ghana.pdf (501.58 KB) The problem of partial supply chain integration is going on within the cocoa industry in Ghana. The study sort to examine the major challenges within the industry, which inhibits effective implementation and use of supply chain integration; the relative importance index run on the mean factors...
Enhancing the sustainability of commodity supply chains in tropical landscapes.pdf (929.09 KB) The rapid expansion of the production of agricultural commodities such as beef, cocoa, palm oil, rubber and soybean is associated with high rates of deforestation in tropical forest landscapes. Many state, civil society and market sector actors are engaged in developing and implementing...
kolavalli et al (2012) the partically liberalized cocoa sector in Ghana.pdf (1.07 MB) The cocoa sector in Ghana is one of few examples of an export commodity sector in an African country that has withstood the pressure to fully liberalize. Despite substantial government control over internal and external marketing via the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), the current institutional...
Hainmueller et al (2011) baseline survey, preliminary report.pdf (1.08 MB) This baseline survey has gathered detailed data on conditions and challenges faced by a large sample of cocoa farmers. The goal of the survey was to measure economic and social indicators before the implementation of the key components of the CCP program to enable later comparisons with data...
mohammed et al (2012) cocoa value chain implications for the smallholder farmer in Ghana.pdf (457.63 KB) The study sought among other things to examine the detailed map of Ghana’s cocoa value chain (GCVC), the major constraints and opportunities to growth and expansion of GCVC, and proposes strategies to at least mitigate the identified constraints. Questionnaires were used to collect primary data...
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