IFPRI-ODI Cocoa Workshop Proceedings

The proceedings of the IFPRI-ODI Workshop “Production, Markets and the Future of Smallholders: the Role of Cocoa in Ghana” are now available.

(Note: the proceedings document contains links to the other workshop files. All of the files should be downloaded to the same folder for the links to work properly.)

Proceedings

Agenda

Participants

Presentations:

The role of cocoa in Ghana’s growth and Poverty Reduction (Clemens Breisinger, IFPRI)

Drivers of productivity growth in Ghana’s cocoa sector (Marcella Vigneri, ODI)

International perspectives on the cocoa sector: expansion or green and double green revolutions? (Francois Ruf, Cirad)

Cocobod strategy (Ebenezer Quartey, Research Department, Cocobod)

Cocoa production strategies and the conservation of globally significant rainforest remnants in Ghana (Jim Gockowski, STCP-IITA)

Marketing reforms in Ghana’s cocoa sector: Partial liberalisation, partial benefits? (Anna Laven, University of Amsterdam)

Ghana and the cocoa marketing dilemma: What has liberalisation without price
competition achieved? (Marcella Vigneri, ODI and Paulo Santos, University of Sydney)