have boosted the global demand for cocoa. However, world cocoa supply could barely keep up with demand. These processes … triggered a high volatility in global cocoa prices. Volatility induces uncertainty among market participants, hence preventing … the market from working properly. It also makes the millions of cocoa farmers in the developing world highly vulnerable to …

frontier analysis, the technical efficiency of cocoa production and decompose productivity growth. According to our results …, the productivity of Indonesian cocoa farming increased by 75 percent between 2001 and 2013. Technical efficiency growth …This study investigates the Indonesian cocoa production to reveal the possibilities for poverty alleviation while …

Cote d’Ivoire has been at the helm of cocoa production for more than 3 decades. Despite being fraught by occasional … challenges, she is still poised to steer the global cocoa production rudder. To keep the mantle of, we investigate and analyse … some determinants that influence cocoa shortage in Cote d’Ivoire. Employing an ARDL using time series data for a 33-year …

In this paper, we use a vintage-capital model with risk of eviction to assess cocoa farmers' response to changes in … their tenure security and to the introduction of a new, faster-maturing cocoa variety. The model is calibrated with data … welfare and deforestation rates. Our findings can be summarized in three points. First, improved tenure security over cocoa …