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The Political Economy of the Cocoa Value Chain in Ghana

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dc.creator Teye, Joseph Kofi
dc.creator Nikoi, Ebenezer
dc.date 2021-06-15T09:53:49Z
dc.date 2021-06-15T09:53:49Z
dc.date 2021-03-01
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-26T08:46:43Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-26T08:46:43Z
dc.identifier Teye, J.K. and Nikoi, E. (2021) The Political Economy of the Cocoa Value Chain in Ghana, APRA Working Paper 53, Brighton: Future Agricultures Consortium, DOI: 10.19088/APRA.2021.007
dc.identifier 978-1-78118-786-9
dc.identifier https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16676
dc.identifier Rural Futures
dc.identifier 10.19088/APRA.2021.007
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/198499
dc.description The cocoa sector has, historically, been the backbone of the Ghanaian economy. Many households depend directly on the cocoa sector for livelihoods, and aspects of the cocoa industry, such as input supplies to farmers and cocoa pricing, have historically featured prominently in national and local politics. This paper examines the basic underlying political economy dynamics of the cocoa value chain, with particular focus on how the interests, powers and interactions of various actors along the value chain have contributed to agricultural commercialisation in Ghana. The paper also explores the challenges affecting the cocoa value chain, social difference within the chain, and how various segments of the cocoa value chain have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana since March 2020
dc.language en
dc.publisher APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium
dc.relation APRA Working Papers;53
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.rights APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium
dc.subject Agriculture
dc.subject Development Policy
dc.subject Economic Development
dc.subject Gender
dc.subject Globalisation
dc.subject Health
dc.subject Politics and Power
dc.subject Poverty
dc.title The Political Economy of the Cocoa Value Chain in Ghana
dc.type Series paper (non-IDS)
dc.coverage Ghana


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