...Valerie Herve Ondoua Ondoua; Georges Dieudonné Mbondo; Adamou Ntieche; Fabrice Nzepang Purpose This article aims to assess the gender-differentiated effect of farmer training on cocoa farm yields in Greater South Cameroon, using both bivariate probit and propensity score matching (PSM) approaches...

...Lawrence Kusi; Daniel Agyapong; Edmond Yeboah Nyamah; Gloria Kakrabah-Quarshie Agyapong; Kwamena Minta Nyarku; Prince Kofi Annan Assefuah Purpose The study aims to examine how direct supplier development (SD) projects affect the operational efficiency (OE) of cocoa farms (agribusinesses...

...Franklin Nantui Mabe; Gideon Danso-Abbeam; Shaibu Baanni Azumah; Nathaniel Amoh Boateng; Kwadwo B. Mensah; Ethel Boateng Purpose Cocoa is regarded as a brown-golden crop, but its value chain activities are dominated by the elderly. Hence, focussing attention on the young generation of farmers...

...Diederik de Boer; Gigi Limpens; Amzul Rifin; Nunung Kusnadi Purpose The inclusiveness of smallholder cocoa farmers in the international cocoa value chain is addressed in the context of institutional voids through linkages with different business models in the region of Bali, West-Sumatra and West...

...Richard Kwasi Bannor; Helena Oppong-Kyeremeh; Samuel Atewene; Camillus Abawiera Wongnaa Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors influencing the choice and the amount of cocoa beans sold to public and private licensed buying companies in the Western North of Ghana. Design...

... counterparts. The authors also ask what benefits they associate with participation and if they believe they believe those benefits are exclusive to value chain participation. Design/methodology/approach – The authors collect data from growers in three different cocoa value chains in Ashanti, Ghana...