Achieving a sustainable cocoa economy is beyond the capacity of individual market-led initiatives and quality certification schemes. In the case of commodity chains like cocoa, due to the involvement of large numbers of poor and relatively unorganised smallholder producers, the public sector has...

The study assessed extension workers’ perception of technology dissemination constraints in Cocoa production in Edo State, Nigeria. The forty seven (47) extension agents in position constituted the respondents for the study. Data were gathered with the aid of structured questionnaire and...

Large chocolate manufacturers have committed themselves to only using certifiedcocoa beans and some governments want to increase the share of certified cocoaproducts consumed in their countries. Thus, Voluntary Sustainability Standards(VSSs) become quasi-mandatory for cocoa producers and...