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Women in Cocoa Tout Transformational Journey With Cocoa Life
"I have travelled far away from home to be at this important gathering. A few years ago, it would have been impossible for me, a woman, to attend this cocoa farming-related programme," Charity Ofori, a female cocoa farmer, told Cocoa Post.…
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World Cocoa Order: How Is Ghana Leading The Charge To Decolonise The Cocoa Value Chain?
In 1585 Europe received the first official shipment of cocoa beans at the Spanish port of Seville from Mexico, launching the international cocoa trade.
Cocoa also referred to as Theobroma cacao (food of the gods) was consumed largely in…
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Ghana’s Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme Starts In Days Amid Concerns By Some Farmers.…
Ghana's cocoa regulator, Cocobod, is set to roll out a pension scheme for cocoa farmers for the first time in the country's history.
Thirty-seven years ago, the erstwhile military junta, Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC),…
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Ivory Coast Walks The Talk In Value Addition To Capture More Wealth From Booming Agriculture
Ivory Coast wrestled the world's top producer of cocoa position from West African neighbour, Ghana, in 1978 and has since not looked back.
For 4years and counting the country's annual cocoa crop output has surpassed the 2million metric…
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Grand Daughter Of Cocoa Farmer Opens Ghana’s First Cocoa Museum And Chocolate Factory
Ghana has been growing cocoa for almost a century and a half and was once the world's leading supplier of the key chocolate ingredient until losing that spot in 1977.
The West African nation boasts of a rich heritage in cocoa production.…
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Expand Value Addition To Ghana’s Cocoa Beyond The Idea Of Chocolate
Ghana’s main upgrading strategy in the cocoa sector has been to maintain quality while struggling with cocoa processing and manufacturing of chocolate.
Previous governments of Ghana have attempted to process cocoa into various products,…
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EU Regulation: Big Chocolate Revenge On Ghana And Côte d’Ivoire Cocoa LID?
The ambience of chitchats fills an Accra hotel seminar hall as attendees exchange pleasantries while networking. Others make their way out for the cocoa break.
It's the end of the opening session of the COCOBOD AfCFTA Committee's meeting…
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Is Fairtrade A Certification Organisation Or A “Fair Trade” Advocate?
So, on the 6th of July 2020 and on the 29th of March 2021, I published an article titled “Is Fairtrade Fair to Cocoa Farmers?” in The Cocoa Post, Ghana Talks Business and Business and Financial Times.
Fairtrade Africa did the dutiful,…
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Empowered Women Lead the Fight Against Child Labour
Meet Stella Anokye, a middle-aged cocoa farmer who owns a five-acre plot in Wamase, Ghana’s Ashanti Region. Stella is an anti-child labour champion and leads the Nyame Ne Yen Boafo (“God is our helper”) village savings group.
Prior to…
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Is There Any Link – Increased Local Value Addition And Cocoa Farmers’ Income?
Anytime, the topics of low income and worsening livelihood of cocoa farmers are raised in Ghana, people mistakenly assume Ghana to be the cocoa farmer and thus they argue that Ghana needs to add value to its cocoa beans to improve its…
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