Cacao Research: Socio-Economic
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Social Concerns
- Coffee vs. cacao: a case study from the Vietnamese Central Highlands. Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, vol. 34, p. 107-111. 2005. by Dang Thanh Ha and G. Shively [pdf: 179 kb]
- Modeling farmers' decisions on child labor and schooling in the cocoa sector: a multinomial logit analysis in Cote d'Ivoire. Agricultural Economics, vol 35, p. 319-333, 2006. by G.B. Nkamleu and A. Kielland [PDF: 150 KB] posted Jan. 2 2007
- Transnational Sourcing Practices in Ghana's Perennial Crop Sectors. Journal of Agrarian Change, vol. 8, p. 94-122, 2008 by N. Fold [PDF: 224 KB] posted February 1 2008
Economic Issues
- Trinidad, Brazil, and Ghana: three melting moments in the history of cocoa by J. Leitera and S. Harding [PDF: 243kb]
- Property rights, production technology, and deforestation: cocoa in Cameroon. Agricultural Economics: The Journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 35, no.1, p. 19-26, 2006. by H. Kazianga and W.A. Masters [PDF: 158 KB]
- Economic analysis of the rubber-cocoa intercropping for generation of Certified Emission Reduction. English Abstract. <ORIGINAL> Analise economica do consorcio seringueira-cacau para genacao de Certificados de Emissoes Reduzidas. Revisa Arvore, vol. 30, p. 969-979. by M.K. Cotta, L.A.G. Jacovine, S.R. Valverde, H.N. de Paiva, A. de C. Virgens Filho, and M.L. da Silva. [PDF: 351 KB] posted July 3 2007
- Ecological, economic and social perspectives on cocoa production worldwide. Biodiversity and Conservation, vol. 16, p. 3835-3849, 2007. by M. Franzen, M. Mulder Borgerhoff. [PDF: 199 KB] posted November 15 2007
- Investment in cocoa production in Nigeria: A cost and return analysis of three cocoa production management systems in the Cross River State cocoa belt. J. Central European Agriculture, vol. 8, p. 81-90, 2007. by M. Nkang, E. Ajah, S. Abang, and E. Edet. [PDF: 401 KB] posted June 28 2008
History
- Cacao in Eastern Guatemala - A Sacred Tree with Ecological Significance. Environment Development and Sustainability, vol. 8, p. 597-608, 2006. by J. Kufer, N. Grube, and M. Heinrich [PDF: 151 KB] posted Mar. 30 2007
- Chemical and archaeological evidence for the earliest cacao beverages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 104, p. 18937-18940, 2007 by J.S. Henderson, R.A. Joyce, G.R. Hall, W.J. Hurst, and P.E. McGovern. [PDF: 512 KB] posted March 3 2008