Assessing the adaptive capacity of smallholder cocoa farmers to climate variability in the Adansi South District of the Ashanti Region, Ghana [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 This study assessed the adaptive capacity of smallholder cocoa farmers to address the adverse effects of climate variability in the Adansi South District of the Ashanti Region, Ghana.
Frank Baffour-Ata +7 more
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Knowledge, perception, and pesticide application practices among smallholder cocoa farmers in four Ghanaian cocoa-growing regions [PDF]
Toxicology Reports, 2023 Pesticides are widely used in Ghana, especially in cocoa farming. However, the practice is suboptimal and unsupervised. Incorrect use of these chemicals can seriously harm human health, the environment, and economies that rely on these farmers' output ...
Kwame Osei Boateng +5 more
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Factors Influencing Farmers’ Adoption of CRIN TC Cocoa Hybrid Technology in Oyo State, Nigeria
Coffee and Cocoa Research Journal, 2018 Cocoa production in Nigeria has been on a downward trend in recent years. Low productivity from ageing cocoa trees and low technology uptake among the farmers are some of the contributing factors.
Jonathan Akinsola Akinwale +1 more
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Climate change induced occupational stress and reported morbidity among cocoa farmers in South-Western Nigeria [PDF]
Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 2015 Introduction and objective. Climate change is one of the major development hurdles in many developing countries. The health outcome of farm households are related to climate change, which is related to several external and internal health-related issues,
Abayomi Samuel Oyekale
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What are the drivers of cocoa farmers’ choice of climate change adaptation strategies in Ghana?
Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2017 This study analyses cocoa farmers’ perception on climate change and adaptation strategies in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana. Better understanding of these perceptions would help identify knowledge gaps of cocoa farmers on climate change, and would help ...
Elisha Kwaku Denkyirah +3 more
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Shade Tree Selection in Cocoa Agroforestry: Ghanaian Farmers' Preferences, Ecological Insight and Drivers of Local Ecological Knowledge [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionIntegrating shade trees into cocoa farms potentially reduces the environmental cost of cocoa production and enhances their conservation value. However, it is unclear how farmers' shade trees preferences vary across cocoa production stage and how these ...
Michael Asigbaase +2 more
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Study on Incentive Price of Fermented Cocoa to Overcome Reluctance of Farmer to Apply Fermentation : Case Study in Jembrana Regency [PDF]
Coffee and Cocoa Research Journal, 2015 Improving cocoa quality through encouraging farmers to do fermentation is one of the ways to increase the added value of cocoa. However, majority of Indonesian farmers are reluctance to do fermentation.
Joko Soemarno +3 more
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Coffee and Cocoa Research Journal, 2020 Cameroon is the fifth largest cocoa producer in the world with approximately 220,000 tons of cocoa produced annually. Many factors account for this productivity, amongst which are ageing farms and personal characteristics of farmers.
Herve Bertrand Yakan +2 more
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Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 2023 The inability of farmers to adhere to the precise usage pattern of weedicides and personal protective equipment (PPE) in cocoa cultivation has been a challenge to cocoa production, the environment and human health.
Kwame Owusu Ansah +5 more
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Access to trade credit and its impact on the use of European Union (EU) approved pesticides among smallholder cocoa farmers in Ondo State, Nigeria [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 Ayodeji Damilola Kehinde
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