Technical inefficiency persists in Ghana's cocoa farms. Farm‑level guidelines from empirical studies are essential to … of smallholder cocoa farmers are crucial for the sustainable growth of Ghana's cocoa sector as farmers' efficiency and … inefficiency in the Ghanaian cocoa farms is due to both inefficient utilization of inputs and farmers' inability to operate at the …

social upgrading /downgrading of smallholders and Abusa sharecroppers in Ghana's cocoa value chain (GCVC). The findings are …

paper aims at investigating cocoa farmers' awareness of pension schemes as well as assessing their willingness to … participate in a cocoa pension scheme. A sample of 450 cocoa farmers were interviewed using a structured questionnaire. The … farmers' willingness to pay for pension schemes. From the study, only 43 percent of farmers were aware of the cocoa pension …

insights into the complex nature of poverty among cocoa farming households in rural Ghana. By comparing unidimensional and … estimates of unidimensional and multidimensional methodologies to analyse the factors that influence the poverty levels of cocoa … farming households predominantly in rural Ghana. A census was conducted in the Chorichori community in Ghana using a …

cocoa bean exports is greater than that of cashew nuts exports on the economic growth of Ghana. The Granger causality test … data for Ghana from 1970 to 2019. Evidence of a long-run asymmetric cointegration relationship exists between cashew nuts … exports, cocoa beans exports, and economic growth. Findings further revealed both cashew nuts and cocoa beans exports have a …

The COVID-19 pandemic generated diverse impacts and responses in agricultural value chains worldwide. Cocoa is a key … severity of impacts and responses implemented by two links in the cocoa value chain to the pandemic, based on a survey of 158 … cocoa farmers and 52 cocoa intermediaries from the main cocoa-producing provinces of the northern coast of Ecuador in 2021 …

Most cocoa is grown by smallholder farmers whose livelihoods depend largely on the income from cocoa. Today, cocoa … cocoa is growing steadily. There is, however, insufficient information available on whether the sourced cocoa is produced … under gender-equitable conditions. We address this by examining two cocoa supply chains using our own sex …

questions and challenges, by examining how agricultural innovation arises in four African countries, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and … Uganda, through agribusiness, public policies, and specific value chains for food staples, high value products, and livestock …) involving many actors and interactions. The country reports are based on qualitative interviews with agribusiness …