The global spread of COVID-19 represents a massive challenge for developing countries.
Beyond the health crisis and the sudden stop of domestic economic activities, many …

Many sources indicate that smallholder tree-crop commodity farmers are poor, but there is a
paucity of data on how many of them are poor and the depth of poverty. The living income …

Policy responses to balance the trade-offs between nature conservation and socioeconomic
development have recently come to the fore in Ghana–the world's second largest producer …

Mispricing of international trade in natural resources contributes to significant tax base
erosion from developing countries but is difficult to measure using aggregate trade statistics …

Despite efforts by governments, industry, civil society and other key stakeholders to ensure
fairer farmer incomes, eradicate child labour, and address causes of cocoa-related …

This paper is intended to contribute to a data-led and evidence-based point in view to the
discussion around living income for cocoa farmers in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire–the largest …

The global spread of the corona virus is a massive challenge for countries in the Global
South. Beyond the health crisis, many countries face economic turmoil linked to their …

This study aims at developing econometric models to manage the price risk of Dry and Wet
Cocoa beans with the help of ARIMA (Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average) and VAR …

This paper identifies several governance factors that enable economic upgrading and the
link between economic and social upgrading/downgrading of smallholders and Abusa …

This article explores the real-time interactions between agriculture, energy, economy, trade,
climate resilience, and livelihoods across sub-Saharan Africa and the implications for 2050 …