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Local cocoa marketing under pressure: Sustainability certification and new forms of competition in Ghana's cocoa industry
Ollendorf, Franziska; Ansah, Goodlet - 2022
responses transform the local economy. Taking the case of sustainability certification in the cocoa industry of Ghana, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013459713
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Potentials for improving the socioeconomic situation of Ghanaian cocoa farmers: The role of sustainability initiatives
Grohs, Hannes; Grumiller, Jan; Peham, Andreas - 2023
overview of both the global cocoa-chocolate value chain and the specifics of the cocoa industry in Ghana as well as the … communities in Ghana. The review includes both civil society and private sector-led initiatives, as well as state-led initiatives …, both in Ghana as one of two major global producer countries and in the EU as a major global consumer. On the basis of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000455
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Opportunities and constraints in agriculture: A gendered analysis of cocoa production in Southern Cameroon
Kumase, Wokia-azi N.; Bisseleua, Herve; Klasen, Stephan - 2010
In this paper we examine gender differences in cocoa production in Cameroon using a survey of about 1000 cocoa producers in Southern Cameroon. We find that women farmers have access to land (of similar size to men), but through different mechanisms than men. They are strongly disadvantaged when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329950
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Revenue effects of participation in smallholder organic cocoa production in tropical Africa: A case study
Gibbon, Peter; Lin, Yumiao; Jones, Sam - 2009
This paper examines the revenue effects of certified organic contract farming and of use of organic farming methods in a tropical African context. These are compared with 'organic by default' conventional farming systems without contractual relations. Survey data from a medium-size cocoa-vanilla...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273231
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Eliciting environmental preferences of Ghanaians: an experimental approach
Meroz, Yael; Morone, Andrea; Morone, Piergiuseppe - 2007
provides an answer to both issues, showing how using an incentive compatible experiment produces, in the case of Ghana …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263820
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How do firms organize trade?: Evidence from Ghana
Krüger, Jens - 2009
The literature on firm heterogeneity in international trade posits that only the most productive firms become exporters (Melitz 2003). However, empirical findings suggest that also firms that are not highly productive export. This paper investigates empirically how firms organize their export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264900
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Managing future oil revenues in Ghana: An assessment of alternative allocation options
Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen; Schweickert, Rainer; … - 2009
temporary oil revenue inflows to Ghana. The simulations show that beyond the short-run Dutch disease effects, the relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265232
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Why do foreign-owned-firms pay more? The role of on-the-job training
Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2002
Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers in both developed and developing countries alike. Although a number of studies have documented and some attempted to explain this stylized fact, the issue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265544
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Spillovers from foreign firms through worker mobility: an empirical investigation
Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2002
While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature. Our results suggest that firms which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265547
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Spillovers from foreign firms through worker mobility: an empirical investigation
Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2002
While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature. Our results suggest that firms which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265549