Cacao Research: Socio-Economic

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In this section:

• Social Concerns
• Economic Issues
• History

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
• Medios de vida y dinámica del uso del suelo en los Territorios Indígenas Bribri y Cabécar de Talamanca, Costa Rica. [Livelihoods and land use dynamics in the Bribri and Cabecar indigenous territories, Talamanca, Costa Rica]. Spanish with English summary. Agroforestería en las Américas (CATIE). vol. 46, p. 51-56 by M. Whelan, D. Stoian, J.D. Wulfhorst, E. Somarriba, G. Soto and K. Prins [PDF: 150 KB] posted November 20 2008
• Patterns of population change in Ghana (1984-2000): urbanization and frontier development. GeoJournal, vol. 73, p. 307-320, 2008 by L. Moller-Jensen and M.H. Knudsen [PDF: 2 MB] posted December 5 2008
• Reading the Talamanca landscape: land use and livelihoods in the Bribri and Cabécar indigenous territories. English, Spanish summary. Interpretando el paisaje en Talamanca: uso de la tierra y estrategias de vida en los territorios indígenas Bribri y Cabécar. Tesis Mag. Sc. Turrialba, Costa Rica, CATIE. 122 p., 2005 by M. Whelan. [PDF: 1980KB] posted February 3 2009
• Socio-cultural issues in cocoa production and commercialization from indigenous Bribri and Cabecar families in Talamanca. In Spanish. Aspectos socio culturales de la produccion y commercializacion de cacao en unidades familiares indigenas Bribris y Cabecares en Alta Talamanca. Thesis Universidad de Costa Rica by K. Acuñ a-Sossa. [PDF: 299KB] posted February 23 2009
• Travail des enfants dans les plantations ouest-africaines de cacao. Etude documentaire (French). SWAC/D(2009), February 15, 2009 . Club du Sahel et de l'Afrique de l'Ouest/OCDE. [PDF: 844KB] posted September 2, 2009

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
• The economic signficance of coffee, tea and cocoa - an overview for Germany <original in German> Die wirtschaftliche Bedeutung von Kaffee, Tee und Kakao - eine Ubersicht fur Deutschland. Journal fur Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit, vol. 2, p. 393-398, 2007. by P. Brandt [PDF: 471 KB] posted August 27 2008
• Environmental impacts of cocoa production and processing in Ghana: life cycle assassment approach. Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 16, p. 1735-1740, 2008 by A. Ntiamoah and G. Afrane [PDF:288KB] posted December 29 2008
• Livelihood and business development strategies of innovative farmers in Alto Beni, Bolivia. In Spanish with English summary. Estrategias de vida de productores emprendedores y desarrollo empresarial rural en el Alto Beni, Bolivia. Agroforestería en las Américas (CATIE), vol. 43-44 p. 27-31, 2005 by R. Abruzzese and D. Stoian. [PDF: 260KB] posted February 2 2009
• How to modernize the cocoa supply chain in Alto Beni, Bolivia. Spanish, English summary. ¿Cómo modernizar la cadena del cacao del Alto Beni, Bolivia? Agroforestería en las Américas (CATIE), vol. 43-44 p. 15-19, 2005 by E. Somarriba, L. Trujillo, D. Stoian, G. Palencia, F. Cancari, G. Trujillo, J. Cuaquira, V. Mendieta, F. Aguirre, W. July, E. Huanca, J. Mamani, R. Flores and G. Castro. [PDF: 189KB] posted February 3 2009
• Main stakeholders in the cocoa supply chain in Talamanca. In Spanish. Principales actores de Talamanca. Agroforestería en las Américas (CATIE), vol. 10 (37-38) p. 6-11, 2003 by H. Andrade and G. Detlefsen [PDF: 106KB] posted February 23 2009
• Traded volumes and prices tendencies for organic cocoa and bananas in the international markets. Spanish with English summary. [Los volúmesnes de negocio y las tendencias de precios en los mercados internacionales de cacao]. Agroforestería en las Américas (CATIE), vol.10 (37-38), p. 63-68, 2003 by V. Hinojosa, D. Stoian and E. Somarriba [PDF: 645KB] posted February 23 2009
• Characterization of the potential for the production of organic cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) in the municipalities of Cajigal and Arismendi of the state of Sucre, Venezuela. Spanish with English summary. [Caracterizacíon del potencial para la producción de cacao orgánico (Theobroma cacao L.) en los municipios Cajigal y Arismendi del estado Sucre, Venezuela. Tesis Mag. Sc. Turrialba, Costa Rica, CATIE. 108 p., 2002 by O.M. Rondón Muñoz [PDF: 6.48MB] posted February 24 2009
• Damage to cacao due to harvestof the timber of Cordia alliodora in indigenous cocoa farms in Talamanca, Costa Rica. Spanish with English summary. [Daño al cacao (Theobroma cacao) por el aprovechamiento de Cordia alliodora em cacaotales indí genas de Talamanca, Costa Rica]. Agroforestería en las Américas (CATIE), vol.10 (37-38), p. 42-45, 2003 by D. Ryan, G.A. Bright and E. Somarriba [PDF: 6.5MB] posted February 24 2009

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
• Evidence of cacao use in the Prehispanic American Southwest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 106, p. 2110-2113, 2009 by P.L. Crown and W.J. Hurst. [PDF: 616KB] posted May 4 2009