The global cocoa trade network is highly concentrated. The top 5 producers account for 75 percent of exports. Although … recent research shows that agricultural trade was resilient to the 2020 pandemic, cocoa is one of the most affected goods …. This paper estimates the effects of international shocks, in general, and COVID-19 on the global cocoa trade. We find that …

sustainability of cocoa production have become increasingly prominent on political and media agendas. In 2018, Côte d'Ivoire, the … world's largest cocoa producer that has experienced high deforestation rates, adopted a new forest policy willing to …

This study aims at developing econometric models to manage the price risk of Dry and Wet Cocoa beans with the help of … ARIMA (Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average) and VAR (Vector Auto Regressive). The monthly price of Cocoa beans is … collected for the period starting from April 2009 to March 2020 from the office of CAMPCO Limited, Mangalore, and the ICE Cocoa …

in the cocoa sector from the context of pesticide regulations. Such regulations are now increasingly common, due to their … perceived benefits for humans, animals, and the environment. The results of our study show that cocoa-exporting countries stand … standard or its variants, cocoa-exporting countries need to diversify into different markets to balance quality and quantity …

this study, two LCA methods focusing on land use impacts were selected to compare biodiversity impacts of cocoa cultivation …, agroforestry has a higher biodiversity impact per kg of cocoa produced than more intensive cultivation systems, which contradicts … cocoa cultivation differ between LCA and DOPA approaches. These findings are extensively discussed to identify main …

Due to the importance of cocoa in the food industry, there is a greater need to transport this commodity with fewer … rejections and damage to quality. Growing in the tropical areas of the world, cocoa beans travel a considerable distance to their … increasing amount of organizations is being involved in enhancing sustainable methods of farming practices to combat cocoa bean …