Olarte-Libreros, Mónica María; Rojas-Mora, Jaime Edison; … - In: Economies : open access journal 13 (2025) 2, pp. 1-18
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 …