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Environmental sustainability initiatives in the Colombian cocoa sector

Deuss, Annelies - 2026

Increasing demands in the global marketplace for agricultural products with environmental sustainability credentials has created growing expectations for producers and exporters to demonstrate to trading partners actions to improve sustainability. This report examines how the cocoa sector in...

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Bioeconomic viability and resilience of agroforestry systems

Mba, Alex Darius; Yatat-Djeumen, Ivric Valaire; Doyen, Luc - 2026

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Living income measurement methods : a comparative study and application to cocoa farmers in Cameroon

Covarrubias, Katia; De la O Campos, Ana Paula; Akamin, … - 2025

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Effects of international shocks on cocoa global production

Olarte-Libreros, Mónica María; Rojas-Mora, Jaime Edison; … - 2025

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...

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"Behind organic cocoa, there stands a woman’s time" : organic cocoa production and women’s empowerment in Peru

Santalucia, Simone; Wollni, Meike - 2025

Specialization in labor-intensive export crops, such as organic cocoa, can exacerbate gender inequality if production and revenues fall under men's control and the additional labor burden falls on women. However, evidence on the implications for women's empowerment in value chains that combine...

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Agroforestry as a climate change adaptation strategy : evidence from Ghana's cocoa sector

Wätzold, Marlene Yu Lilin; Krumbiegel, Katharina; … - 2025

Climate change is intensifying extreme weather events such as droughts and extreme temperatures, threatening agricultural systems. In sub-Saharan Africa, where most farmers rely on rainfed agriculture, the impacts are particularly severe. Agroforestry practices have the potential to provide a...

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A value chain modeling approach for upscaling the production of fine flavor cocoa in Arauca (Colombia)

Cortés, María F.; Parra, Karla; Rodríguez, Daniela; … - 2025

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Sustainability standards in agri-food value chains : impacts and trade-offs for smallholder farmers

Wollni, Meike; Bohn, Sophia; Ocampo-Ariza, Carolina; … - 2025

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EUDR compliance : understanding your position in beef, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soy, and wood supply chains

2025 - 1st edition

The EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, hereinafter referred to as 'the Regulation', 'this Regulation', or 'EUDR') introduces obligations to operators and traders relating to the placing or making available on the Union market, and exporting from the Union of...

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EUDR compliance : understanding your position in beef, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soy and wood supply chains

2025 - 2nd edition

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Climate resilience in the palm of a hand : digital financial inclusion and cocoa farmers' adoption of climate smart agricultural technologies in Ghana

Asante, Bright Owusu; Prah, Stephen; Akutinga, Solomon; … - 2025

Smallholder farmers face increasing climate risks but often lack access to financial services needed to adopt climate-smart agricultural technologies (CSATs). This study examined the impact of digital financial inclusion (DFI) on the CSATs in Ghana. Utilizing random data from 532 cocoa farmers,...

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The cocoa commodity chain in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Amazonia : similar industrial upgrading processes but divergent socio-environmental constructions

Viejó-Bautista, María-José; Higuchi, Angie; … - 2025

Purpose: Analyse the functioning of the Amazonian cocoa commodity chain works in Napo (Ecuador) and Tocache (Peru), focusing on the factors that shape its governance and attempts at its subversion through economic, social and environmental upgrading processes. Design/methodology/approach: The...

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International cocoa trading arrangements between industrialized and developing countries 1951-1999 : a structural gravity analysis

Brown, John Christopher; Matschke, Xenia; Rojas … - 2025

Using a state of the art structural gravity model, we investigate the impact of various (post-)colonial cocoa trading arrangements on the cocoa trade between developing cocoa producer countries and rich industrial cocoa consumer nations in the time period 1951 to 1999. We find that in particular...

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The journey from technological change to livelihood : effectual behaviour and farmers' compliance with certification standards in Ghana's cocoa sector

Codjoe, Francis Nana Yaw; Mathé, Syndhia; Soullier, … - 2025

Third-party certification is on the rise in agrifood chains despite the obstacles farmers face in participating in-and compliance with-certification standards with rapidly evolving standards and risky markets. Yet certification schemes claim to enhance smallholder livelihoods, barriers and...

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Implementation and effectiveness of corporate-driven smallholder cocoa certification schemes in Indonesia

Bemelmans, Janne; Maertens, Miet - 2025

Voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) are a popular instrument in corporate social responsibility strategies of food processing and distribution companies. Yet, concerns emerge about companies capitalizing on VSS as a reputation-building and product-differentiation tool without investing in...

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Do voluntary sustainability standards improve socioeconomic and ecological outcomes? : evidence from Ghana's cocoa sector

Wätzold, Marlene Yu Lilin; Abdulai, Issaka; Cooke, Amanda - 2025

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Do voluntary sustainability standards improve socioeconomic and ecological outcomes? : evidence from Ghana’s cocoa sector

Wätzold, Marlene Yu Lilin; Abdulai, Issaka; Cooke, Amanda - 2024

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True cost accounting for cocoa, coffee, maize, livestock, palm oil, rice, soybeans and wheat : an overview of key commodities under the Global Environment Facility's Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration Impact Program

Drogo, Federico; Ignaciuk, Adriana M.; Neves, Bernardete; … - 2025

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Cocoa Barometer 2025

Fountain, Antonie C.; Huetz-Adams, Friedel - 2025

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To survive or to die? : cross-sectoral analysis of mechanisms and challenges of succession planning by agripreneurs in Ghana

Mensah, Mavis Serwah Benneh; Arthur, Keren Naa Abeka; … - 2025

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The political economy of pricing and price risk in Ghana's cocoa marketing system

Van Huellen, Sophie; Abubakar, Fuad Mohammed; … - 2024

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Elongating the causes of social vulnerability : historical analysis of social sustainability dimensions in the Ivorian cocoa sector

Coral, Claudia; Cárcamo Mallen, Robert Williams; … - 2024

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Differing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on farmers and intermediaries : insights into the Ecuadorian cocoa value chain

Zambrano, Guillermo; Tennhardt, Lina M.; Egger, Moritz; … - 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic generated diverse impacts and responses in agricultural value chains worldwide. Cocoa is a key crop for Ecuadorian exports, and the analysis of effects the pandemic had on value chain actors contributes to the understanding of their individual capacities to coping with a...

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The implications of governance factors for economic and social upgrading in Ghana's cocoa value chain

Kissi, Evans Appiah; Herzig, Christian - 2024

This paper identifies several governance factors that enable economic upgrading and the link between economic and social upgrading /downgrading of smallholders and Abusa sharecroppers in Ghana's cocoa value chain (GCVC). The findings are based on qualitative interviews and focus group...

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Biodiversity impacts of cocoa cultivation : an assessment with LCA and DOPA approaches

2024

Biodiversity loss is recognised as one of the top risks that humanity is facing. The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 highlights the need to better integrate biodiversity considerations into decision-making, and commits to the development of methods to measure the environmental footprint of...

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Determinants of poverty in rural cocoa farming communities in Ghana : unidimensional and multidimensional analysis

Agyeman-Boaten, Solomon Yaw - 2024

Poverty is a rural phenomenon due to the dominance of subsistence farming in rural communities. This study compares the estimates of unidimensional and multidimensional methodologies to analyse the factors that influence the poverty levels of cocoa farming households predominantly in rural...

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Estimating the prevalence of child labour in the cocoa industry via indirect elicitation methods : a mixed-methods study

Lépine, Aurélia; N'Djore, Yah Ariane Bernadette; … - 2024

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Impact of agricultural credit on productivity, cost and returns from cocoa production in Ghana

Boansi, David; Gyasi, Michael; Nuamah, Stephen; … - 2024

This study identified the determinants of cocoa farmers' access to credit in Ghana and estimated the impact of credit access on yield, yield gap, gross income, cost of production, and net income using propensity score matching. A total of 384 cocoa-farming households were included in the...

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Comparative analysis of asymmetric impact of cashew nuts and cocoa beans exports on Ghana's economic growth : a non-linear ARDL approach

Abdul-Karim, Ibrahim; Damba, Osman Tahidu - 2024

The study applied the newly developed Non-linear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) model by Shin et al. on annual 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....

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Sustainable practices in cocoa production : the role of certification schemes and farmer cooperatives

Krumbiegel, Katharina; Tillie, Pascal - 2024

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Assessing dishonesty in cocoa value chains : lab-in-the-field evidence from middlemen in Côte D'Ivoire

Boutin, Delphine; Jouvin, Marine; Olié, Louis - 2024

This study investigates dishonest behavior among cocoa middlemen in Côte d'Ivoire, focusing on the role of observability and financial penalties in deterring such behavior. Using on a modified version of the "die-under-cup task", we examine the cheating behaviors of 151 cocoa middlemen over...

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Do smallholder farmers prefer commitment or flexibility in pension savings accounts? : a randomised experiment of cocoa farmers in Ghana

Kos, Diana; Lensink, Robert - 2023

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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

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Household Welfare Outcomes of the Use of and Access to Agricultural Radio Broadcast by Female Cocoa Farmers in Tepa District, Ghana

Awuah-Frimpong, Roland; Tham-Agyekum, Enoch Kwame; … - 2023

Ghanaian women play a significant part in the country's agricultural marketing, processing and production, yet the gender information gap is severe. This survey aimed to evaluate women's use of and access to agriculture radio broadcasts in the Ashanti Region’s Tepa district, Ghana. A...

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What determines a sustained use of approved pesticides for cleaner production and its impact on yield? : Evidence from the cocoa industry in Osun State, Nigeria

Oyenpemi, Lawrence O.; Tijani, Akeem A.; Kehinde, … - 2023

Due to various health issues connected to the use of pesticides, cleaner production is now necessary for the cocoa sector. The health of people is negatively impacted by the residues left in cocoa beans through a variety of active pesticide components, solvents, and other pollutants. Whereas, in...

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Organic cocoa farmer's strategies and sustainability

Prazeres, Ibrahim; Lucas, Maria Raquel David Pereira Ventura - 2023

São Tomé and Príncipe (STP) is one of the world's smallest organic cocoa exporting countries, whose product has a positive socio-cultural and economic impact. Small producers who ensure it, are associated into two cooperatives that experience several difficulties and dilemmas including...

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Actor roles and linkages in the agricultural innovation system : options for establishing a cocoa innovation platform in Ghana

Onumah, Justina Adwoa; Asante, Felix Ankomah; Osei, … - 2023

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Pass-through of cocoa prices along the supply chain : what's left for farmers in Côte D’Ivoire?

Bensch, Gunther; Kaestner, Kathrin; Vance, Colin - 2023

Cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire face precarious livelihoods. Low farm-gate prices that are a fraction of the world market price compel land-extensive farming practices that perpetuate a cycle of poverty and environmental degradation. This paper seeks to understand the drivers of the low...

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Business Handbook on Due Diligence in the Cocoa Sector : Addressing Child Labour and Forced Labour

2023

This handbook aims to help companies identify, prevent and address child labour and forced labour risks, in the cocoa sector. The handbook builds on the leading international, government-backed standards on supply chain due diligence and responsible business conduct: the OECD Guidelines for...

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Price-setting power in global value chains : the cases of price stabilisation in the cocoa sectors in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana

Staritz, Cornelia; Tröster, Bernhard; Grumiller, Jan; … - 2023

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High tax burden reduces competitiveness : a study of the cocoa industry in Indonesia

Murwendah; Desyani, Wina - 2023

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A Bibliometric Analysis of Computational and Mathematical Techniques in the Cocoa Sustainable Food Value Chain

Talero-Sarmiento, Lenardo Hernán; Parra-Sanchez, Diana … - 2023

This study presents an extensive analysis of the research landscape concerning the application of computational and mathematical techniques in cocoa farming from 2000 to 2020. The methodology comprises a two-stage process: a bibliometric analysis of 1,886 peer-reviewed documents and a...

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