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A comprehensive study on the livelihood implications of transitioning from cocoa to rubber plantation in Ghana [PDF]

The study, conducted in Manso Amenfi, Western Region, Ghana, explored the livelihood implications of transitioning from cocoa to rubber plantations. Using a cross-sectional survey with 384 participants, data revealed a decline in cocoa production levels.
kwadwo Amankwah, Busia, Joseph Oppong, Enoch Kwame Tham-Agyekum, Joseph Oppong Busia, Appiah, Patrick, Patrick Appiah, John-Eudes Andivi Bakang, Tham-Agyekum, Enoch Kwame, Amankwah, kwadwo, Bakang, John-Eudes Andivi   +9 more
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Sari‐Sari: Filipino Grocery Stores and Transnational Migrant Food Networks in Hong Kong

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite being one of Hong Kong's largest ethnic minorities, Filipino migrants have a significant albeit understated impact on its foodscape. Hong Kong has a reputation for being a culinary melting pot, yet Philippine food has only recently gained popularity and visibility among its broader population.
Josef Adriel Olindan De Guzman
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Heterogeneous returns and the persistence of agricultural technology adoption [PDF]

In this paper we explore whether low rates of sustained technology use can be explained by heterogeneity in returns to adoption. To do so we evaluate impacts of the Cocoa Abrabopa Association, which provided a package of fertilizer and other inputs on ...
Emmanuel Opoku, Richman Dzene, Andrew Zeitlin, Francis Teal, Petr Janský, Stefano Caria   +5 more
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Incentives-adoption-food security: Implications for sustainable cocoa production in Ghana. [PDF]

This study investigates the adoption of the Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme (CRP), aiming to understand the factors influencing farmers' participation and assess the impact on food security.
Adarkwa, Bright Oteng, Jonathan Mensah, Ankuyi, Fred, Ankrah, Daniel, John-Eudes Andivi Bakang, Bright Oteng Adarkwa, Tham-Agyekum, Enoch Kwame, Bakang, John-Eudes Andivi, Daniel Ankrah, Enoch Kwame Tham-Agyekum, Fred Ankuyi, Mensah, Jonathan, Fred Nimoh, Nimoh, Fred   +13 more
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Reimagining the White Child as Other: Taika Waititi's Decolonial Play in James and the Giant Peach With Taika and Friends

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how James and the Giant Peach with Taika and Friends (JGPTF) (2020) challenges the colonial logics embedded in Roald Dahl's construction of the universal white child. Through collaborative digital play, humour and Māori relational epistemologies, Taika Waititi unsettles James's position as the normative child of futurity,
Diana Sandars
wiley   +1 more source

Working Paper 104 - Technology Gap and Efficiency in Cocoa Production in West and Central Africa: Implications for Cocoa Sector Development [PDF]

This paper applies the recentlydeveloped metafrontier functiontechnique to investigate productivitypotentials and efficiencies in cocoaproduction in West and Central Africa.The methodology enables the estimationof national technology gap ratios (TGRs)by ...
Jim Gockowsk, Joachim Nyemeck, Guy Nkamleu   +2 more
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‘She Knows How to Play With People Properly’: Using PhotoVoice to Conceptualise Capabilities for a ‘Good’ Life With Young Children in Mahikeng, Rural South Africa

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The capabilities approach has informed policy globally, shifting focus away from traditional economic indicators and toward improving people's freedoms and opportunities to be and do what they value in life. However, there is limited research engaging children in conceptualising and measuring capabilities that are important to them for a ‘good’
Gerard Joseph Abou Jaoude, Tom Palmer, Rolando Leiva‐Granados, Frederik Booysen, Qing Gu, Liesel Ebersöhn, Neha Batura, Hassan Haghparast‐Bidgoli, Jolene Skordis   +8 more
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Functional composition and dominance drive seed removal in ant assemblages of Atlantic Forest fragments

Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.
Landscape structure did not affect overall ant species richness, but forest cover influenced the abundance of some functional components of ant assemblages across Atlantic Forest fragments. Seed removal declined with increasing seed size and was positively associated with community dominance but negatively associated with community‐weighted mean ...
Juliana S. Carneiro, Emanuelle L. S. Brito, Eliana Cazetta, Elmo B. A. Koch, Michaele S. Pessoa   +4 more
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Provision of loans and credit by cocoa buyers under non-price competition: Cocoa beans market in Ghana

Open Agriculture
The introduction of partial liberalization into Ghana’s cocoa market in 1992/1993 encouraged competition among cocoa buyers. However, since the government determines prices of cocoa bean and thus prohibits price-based competition among Licensed Buying ...
Kpabitey Sylvia, Chitose Atsushi, Kusadokoro Motoi   +2 more
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Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the colonial origins and evolution of gender inequality in mission schooling and formal labour force participation across six cities in British colonial Africa, using marriage register data for some 30,000 Anglican brides and grooms well‐positioned to benefit from colonial educational and employment opportunities.
Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf
wiley   +1 more source