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Traceability of Agri‐Food Products: The Key to Conscious Trade

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Globalization and growing concerns about sustainability have led to improvements in product traceability, quality, and sustainability. Traceability contributes to environmental protection and supports sustainable development by fostering transparency in agricultural practices and encouraging the responsible use of resources.
Scarlett Queen Almeida Bispo, Fernanda Aparecida Silva, Michelle Márcia Viana Martins, Marcelo José Braga Nonnenberg, Ruan da Silva Vianna, Carla Cristina Passos Cruz   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization of cocoa production, income diversification and shade tree management along a climate gradient in Ghana [PDF]

, 2018
Reduced climatic suitability due to climate change in cocoa growing regions of Ghana is expected in the coming decades. This threatens farmers' livelihood and the cocoa sector.
Abdulai, Issaka, Asare, Richard, Graefe, Sophie, Jassogne, Laurence, Läderach, Peter, Vaast, Philippe, Van Asten, Piet J.A.   +6 more
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of children’s appropriate work participation in cocoa farms on household welfare: Evidence from Ghana

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 2023
This study examines how children engaged in cocoa farming in Ghana affect household welfare. Data was gathered from 384 cocoa producers using a multistage sampling technique and analysed employing the Cragg double hurdle and propensity score method.
Enoch Kwame Tham-Agyekum, Camillus Abawiera Wongnaa, Nana Afranaa Kwapong, David Boansi, Fred Ankuyi, Stephen Prah, John-Eudes Andivi Bakang, Ernest Laryea Okorley, Ezekiel Laten   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social-ecological resilience in organic and non-organic cocoa farming systems in the Yungas of Bolivia [PDF]

, 2013
Cocoa based small scale agriculture is the basic livelihood of most farming families in the region of Alto Beni in the Bolivian Andes. Cocoa cultivation is affected by climate change impacts, soil degradation, pests and plant diseases, and insecure cocoa
Jacobi, Johanna, Pillco, Maria Isabel, Rist, Stephan, Schneider, Monika   +3 more
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Enhancing Market Orientation of Cocoa Farmers through Farmer Business Schools: The Ghana Cocobod Experience

Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development, 2021
The study sought to ascertain how the Farmer Business School (FBS) introduced in 2012 by the Ghana Cocoa Board as an extension approach makes the Ghanaian cocoa farmer more business and entrepreneurially minded. The research methods included using the descriptive survey and multi-stage sampling techniques to cover the six cocoa regions and 600 cocoa ...
Enoch Kwame Tham-Agyekum, Ernest Laryea Okorley, Joseph Kwarteng, John-Eudes Andivi Bakang, Fred Nimoh   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Socio-economic characteristics of registered cocoa farmers in Edo State, Nigeria

Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 2016
This study examined the socio-economic characteristics of registered cocoa farmers in Edo State; Nigeria. Primary data was collected using a well structured questionnaire administered to 180 registered cocoa farmers selected using a multi-stage sampling
C.O. Osarenren, J.O. Ejuetueyin, K.I. Eweka   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of knowledge and patterns of weedicide and personal protective equipment usage among farmers in some cocoa farming communities in Ghana

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, Kwadwo Gyasi Santo, Remember Roger Adjei, Bismark Ofosu-Bamfo, Patrick Addo-Fordjour, Daniel Obeng-Ofori   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effects of public private partnerships on smallholder cocoa farmers' livelihoods in Indonesia : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of International Development at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand [PDF]

, 2018
Public private partnerships (PPPs) have emerged as a development strategy in various sectors in several developed countries since the late 1970s. In the Indonesian context, however, PPPs in the agriculture sector are relatively new.
Permanasari, Yurika A
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