Download or read book The cocoa coast The board managed cocoa sector in Ghana written by Kolavalli, Shashidhara and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After almost 20 years of declining cocoa production, Ghana has been able in the last decade to increase the share of export prices going to producers and more than double production. Contrary to Washington Consensus prescriptions, these accomplishments were achieved through reforms that did not include market liberalization. In The Cocoa Coast: The Board-Managed Cocoa Sector in Ghana, the authors identify factors that have contributed to Ghana’s success in cocoa production. These include the accountability of the government for the sector’s performance (cocoa-sector performance being seen as a key dimension of economic management), its interest in maintaining the ability to raise funds globally as a reliable supplier of high-quality cocoa, and its policy of retaining a portion of producer revenues to promote the adoption of yield-enhancing measures. The authors also suggest how Ghana can improve the efficiency of the cocoa sector through measures such as increased transparency and curtailing services that would be better provided by the private sector. The Cocoa Coast will be a valuable resource for policy makers, development specialists, and others interested in different national development paths.
Download or read book Golden Harvest written by Ghana. Ministry of Food and Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The cocoa coast The board managed cocoa sector in Ghana Synopsis written by Kolavalli, Shashidhara and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After almost 20 years of declining cocoa production, Ghana has been able in the last decade to increase the share of export prices going to producers, more than doubling production. Contrary to Washington Consensus prescriptions, these accomplishments were achieved through reforms but without liberalization of domestic and export marketing. The Cocoa Coast: The Board-Managed Cocoa Sector in Ghana seeks to understand the success of a sector that was not liberalized. The authors identify three major reasons for Ghana’s success in cocoa production. First, cocoa producers receive an increasing share of export prices, because of factors including a stakeholder-advised process for determining producer prices that also pays explicit attention to discouraging smuggling of cocoa to neighboring countries and the popular perception that cocoa performance is tied to the country’s general economic performance. Second, the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has a policy of retaining a portion of producer revenues to promote the adoption of yield-enhancing measures. Third, centralized marketing and maintenance of the high export quality for which Ghana is known enables the country to offer stable prices to producers and opportunities for local businesses to participate in the sector and retain some power in the global value chain.
Download or read book Agribusiness and Innovation Systems in Africa written by Kurt Larsen and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how agricultural innovation arises in four African countries ? Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda ? through the lens of agribusiness, public policies, and specific value chains for food staples, high value products, and livestock.
Download or read book Cocoa Production and Processing Technology written by Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-02-21 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the largest food commodities exported from the developing countries to the rest of the world, cocoa has gained increasing attention on the global market—raising many questions about its quality, sustainability and traceability. Cocoa Production and Processing Technology presents detailed explanations of the technologies that could be employed to assure sustainable production of high-quality and safe cocoa beans for the global confectionary industry. It provides overviews of up-to-date technologies and approaches to modern cocoa production practices, global production and consumption trends as well as principles of cocoa processing and chocolate manufacture. The book covers the origin, history and taxonomy of cocoa, and examines the fairtrade and organic cocoa industries and their influence on smallholder farmers. The chapters provide in-depth coverage of cocoa cultivation, harvesting and post-harvest treatments with a focus on cocoa bean composition, genotypic variations and their influence on quality, post-harvest pre-treatments, fermentation techniques, drying, storage and transportation. The author provides details on cocoa fermentation processes as well as the biochemical and microbiological changes involved and how they influence flavour. He also addresses cocoa trading systems, bean selection and quality criteria, as well as industrial processing of fermented and dried cocoa beans into liquor, cake, butter and powder. The book examines the general principles of chocolate manufacture, detailing the various stages of the processes involved, the factors that influence the quality characteristics and strategies to avoid post-processing quality defects. This volume presents innovative techniques for sustainability and traceability in high-quality cocoa production and explores new product development with potential for cost reduction as well as improved cocoa bean and chocolate product quality.
Download or read book The Declining Ghana Cocoa Industry written by V. K. Nyanteng and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cocoa Industry in Ghana written by Kaitlyn Smoot and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this thesis is to determine which agronomic and market interventions maximize the welfare of cocoa farmers in West Africa, using Ghana as the key case study. First I look at methods to expand yields using econometric analysis of data on 200 cocoa farming households. Results suggest that the best way to increase cocoa production is by promoting fertilizer use. The Ghanaian government's CODAPEC spraying program, and access to extension services were also found to have a positive effect on yields. However, due to cocoa pricing trends and market structures, increasing yields alone is not likely a sustainable way to improve farmer incomes, and it is important to consider other measures, like vertical integration into cocoa processing. Simulations run on a model of total Ghanaian welfare derived from cocoa surprisingly suggest that under current conditions Ghana should export 100% of beans in raw form. However, if a higher percentage of the industry were in the hands of Ghanaian interests, then it would be welfare optimizing to process more beans domestically. Potential policies to promote such a situation include differential incentives for Ghanaian versus foreign processing firms and a marketing for Ghanaian processed cocoa. Another option is to change the law on cocoa purchasing by the government such that Kuapa Kokoo, Ghana's largest cooperative and the only one truly owned by farmers, can process and export their own cocoa directly. Such a move would likely have the highest and longest-lasting impact on the welfare of Ghanaian cocoa farmers.
Download or read book Cocoa written by Kristy Leissle and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chocolate has long been a favorite indulgence. But behind every chocolate bar we unwrap, there is a world of power struggles and political maneuvering over its most important ingredient: cocoa. In this incisive book, Kristy Leissle reveals how cocoa, which brings pleasure and wealth to relatively few, depends upon an extensive global trade system that exploits the labor of five million growers, as well as countless other workers and vulnerable groups. The reality of this dramatic inequity, she explains, is often masked by the social, cultural, emotional, and economic values humans have placed upon cocoa from its earliest cultivation in Mesoamerica to the present day. Tracing the cocoa value chain from farms in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, through to chocolate factories in Europe and North America, Leissle shows how cocoa has been used as a political tool to wield power over others. Cocoa's politicization is not, however, limitless: it happens within botanical parameters set by the crop itself, and the material reality of its transport, storage, and manufacture into chocolate. As calls for justice in the industry have grown louder, Leissle reveals the possibilities for and constraints upon realizing a truly sustainable and fulfilling livelihood for cocoa growers, and for keeping the world full of chocolate.
Download or read book The Migrant Cocoa farmers of Southern Ghana written by Polly Hill and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 1997 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic and social organisation of Ghanaian cocoa-farming is very complex, reflecting differences in population density, land tenure, accessibility, soil fertility and other factors. The 'small peasant', with his two or three acre farms, is one type of farmer, and it has always been supposed that it was he who created the world's largest cocoa-growing industry. The migration of southern Ghanaian cocoa-farmers, which has been proceeding since the 1890s, was not known to have occurred; and this study shows that it was the migrant, not the 'peasant', who was the real innovator. This migrant has scarcely been mentioned in the literature. Author Polly Hill now gives a full account of his migration, 'one of the great events in the recent economic history of Africa south of the Sahara'. The migrant farmer, who rather resembles a 'capitalist' than a 'peasant', buys land (or inherits it from those who bought before him) and conventionally uses the proceeds from one cocoa land to purchase others. It is now possible with the aid of farm-maps to study the whole migratory process, with its changing pattern of land ownership, over more than half a century. The results are revealing. The conventional notion that it was only recently that West Africans began to engage in large-scale economic enterprises is shown to be false. One of the main contentions of this book is that the migrant farmer has been remarkably responsive to economic ends. It is further shown that there is no incompatibility between this kind of enterprise and the continuance of traditional forms of social organisation: nor is there evidence that the enterprising individual found himself hampered by the demands made on him by members of his lineage. In analysing and recording the details of the migratory process, Dr. Hill has made an important contribution to the economic history of West Africa. Besides the economists and economic historians for whom the book is primarily intended, it should be studied by lawyers, geographers, social anthropologists, and all concerned with problems of underdevelopment.
Download or read book Organising the Farmers written by Björn Beckman and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghana and the CPP: an introduction; The cocoa economy; The origin of the farmers' council; The struggle for monopoly; New midlemen; Participation and political control; Cocoa and the public economy.
Download or read book The Development and Growth of the Cocoa Industry in Ghana written by Kweku Simons and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cocoa and Chaos in Ghana written by Gwendolyn Mikell and published by Professors World Peace Academy. This book was released on 1989 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SMEs and New Technologies written by B. Oyelaran-Oyeyinka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-07-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books looks specifically at ICT adoption and learning trajectories in developing countries; a context characterized by skill deficiencies and weak institutional support. The authors employ a theoretical framework and research techniques to present firm-level evidence on learning in firms in an Internet-based production environment.
Download or read book Labor practices in the cocoa sector of Ghana with a special focus on the role of children written by and published by IITA. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chocolate Nations written by Órla Ryan and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chocolate - the very word conjures up a hint of the forbidden and a taste of the decadent. Yet the story behind the chocolate bar is rarely one of luxury. From the thousands of children who work on plantations to the smallholders who harvest the beans, Chocolate Nations reveals the hard economic realities of our favourite sweet. This vivid and gripping exploration of the reasons behind farmer poverty includes the human stories of the producers and traders at the heart of the West African industry. Orla Ryan shows that only a tiny fraction of the cash we pay for a chocolate bar actually makes it back to the farmers, and sheds light on what Fair Trade really means on the ground. Provocative and eye-opening, Chocolate Nations exposes the true story of how the treat we love makes it on to our supermarket shelves.
Download or read book Supply Chain Integration in the Cocoa Industry in Ghana written by Alexander Otchere Fianko and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book was to investigate into the supply chain Integration (SCI) drivers and practices that will enable the Ghanaian cocoa industry to boost her performance for competitive advantage, as well as challenges within the industry in Ghana. Cocoa is Ghana's primary cash crop, which provides about one-third of all export revenues; the cocoa production recorded a significant growth rate since the first shipment of cocoa from the then Gold Coast in 1885 and became the world's leading producer of cocoa in 1911, however; this enviable record was lost after 1983/84 seasons due to several factors including poor supply chain Integration. The book further talks about the recent improvement in performance for example; in 2011 Ghana recorded an unprecedented volume of a little over one million tonnes. There are positive indications that the Ghanaian cocoa industry could have a better future for its economy than ever before if fully adopts all the three aspects of SCI. In effect, the book will contribute to existing knowledge on SCI, the social and economic development in Ghana and beyond. Finally, it will serve as a springboard for further studies.
Download or read book Impact of Cocoa Research Innovations on Poverty Alleviation in Ghana written by M. R. Appiah and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
