Cocoa Industry

Gayi, Samuel K.; Tsowou, Komi

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“…The fresh cacao prices were converted to dry cacao prices because the fresh beans lose two-thirds of their weight during the drying process (Caligiani et al , 2016). Total revenue was adjusted by 30%, generally absorbed by intermediaries (Gayi and Tsowou, 2017). Fresh bean weight in kg was multiplied by 1,000 to arrive at the price for metric tonnes.…”

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Paragons of sustainability: transforming luxury markets through value-in-impact. Insights from an Ecuadorian artisan chocolate case study

Pohlmann

Grijalva²,

Noboa³

et al. 2022

JRME

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Purpose Associated with status, excess and wastefulness, the consumption of luxury is perceived as the antithesis to sustainable development. Entrepreneurs create business cases to mediate positive sustainability changes, which transform markets and institutional arrangements. The purpose of this paper is to propose the concept of value-in-impact as an interface concept to integrate perspectives from entrepreneurship, marketing and ecological economics. It provides interdisciplinarily applicable, generalizable concepts to describe social entrepreneurs’ personal motivations to reconfigure market structures to produce sustainability change. Design/methodology/approach The case of Ecuadorian luxury chocolate manufactory To’ak is described in the context of the three pillars of sustainability, chocolate producers and cacao suppliers. Thematic analysis of the founders’ personal narratives provides insight regarding their motivation to use ostensibly antithetical luxury marketing for rainforest preservation and to foster self-reliant communities. Findings To’ak pays premium prices to create incentives to community farmers to propagate the rare, DNA-certified cacao exclusive to their products, thereby marginalizing oppressive suppliers. The company’s founders are motivated to excellence in the chocolate industry, having witnessed the loss of the cultural meaning of cacao, rainforest degradation and the dissipation of associated communities. The case study findings illustrate how value-in-impact is interpreted as purposeful configuration of value-in-use and value-in-exchange on luxury markets to produce positive sustainability change. Originality/value The notion of value-in-impact describes higher order conceptualizations in business research. It encompasses a holistic understanding of the dynamics within and between societal and natural ecosystems. Its application at the marketing/entrepreneurship interface can lead to improved management and policy decisions.

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Section: Case Study Methodsmentioning

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Paragons of sustainability: transforming luxury markets through value-in-impact. Insights from an Ecuadorian artisan chocolate case study

Pohlmann

Grijalva²,

Noboa³

et al. 2022

JRME

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“…Turning now to cacao, global production consists of between five and six million producers spread across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania. More than 80 per cent of the world's cacao is produced by families on small patches of land and contributes to the income of up to 50 million people (Gayi and Tsowou, 2016). With more than 95 per cent of production destined for global markets, the cacao industry is highly concentrated.…”

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Do Labour Standards Improve Employment Relationships in Global Production Networks? A Cross-sector Study in Brazil

Graz

Lemos

Galvão

2023

GLJ

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Research on private regulation of labour standards in global production networks often highlights their continuing failure despite the fact that lead firms no longer consider them as mere window dressing. Fewer analyses delve into their on-the-ground effectiveness to benefit workers. This article joins a context-specific approach with quantitative analysis to examine whether labour standards used in private regulation improve employment relationships in suppliers of global production networks. Based on a single-country case study of Brazil, we look at the extent of their adoption by suppliers across sectors, their complementarity with national labour institutions, and whether the adoption of labour standards at supplier site level is likely to support labour agency. Our findings show little effectiveness of labour standards against those dimensions. The presence of labour standards at supplier level alone has no significant impact and varies greatly across sectors. It is only if workers are aware of the presence of such standards that it might support their agency when union membership is taken as proxy. Yet, the correlation could also be the other way round: awareness of labour standards depend on being a member of a union in the first place. KEYWORDS: private regulation; certification; labour standards; corporate social responsibility (CSR); global production networks

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“…The share of producer prices comparative to world cocoa prices in the 2000s varied from one country to another [21] where higher producer prices were paid to farmers in Ecuador, as a result of an efficient marketing regime [22] in Cameroun as a result of reduced taxes on cocoa [23] and in Indonesia as a result of limited but supportive government policy reforms [24]. Meanwhile, Ghanaian farmers faced lower producer prices [25] as a result of high inflation levels and exchange rate distortions whiles farmers in Cote d'Ivoire were paid much lower producer prices because of high taxation, estimated between 25% and 30% from 2002-2009 [26].…”

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Impact Assessment of the Cocoa Rehabilitation Project on Cocoa Exports in Ghana

Kwaw-Nimeson¹,

Tian²

2019

JSS

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Cocoa export is the biggest source of Ghana's core revenue from agriculture. This study employs the cointegration approach to measure the impact of the factors that influenced cocoa export performance in Ghana after the cocoa rehabilitation project was introduced into the cocoa sector from 1988 to 1993 by analyzing relevant time series data from 1988 to 2018. The results of the analyses show that all the variables used in the study do not substantially influence cocoa exports in the long run. The study concludes that even though the cocoa rehabilitation project may have had a lasting impact on the performance of the cocoa sector in recent years; resulting in increments in foreign exchange revenue, production and exports, the project to a larger extent has failed to adequately cater for all of the needs of the most important stakeholder of the cash crop-the farmer. The study recommends that Government should restructure and empower the Ghana Cocoa Board through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to ensure proper supervision and accountability in the management of cocoa sector reforms.

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Cocoa Industry

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Paragons of sustainability: transforming luxury markets through value-in-impact. Insights from an Ecuadorian artisan chocolate case study

Paragons of sustainability: transforming luxury markets through value-in-impact. Insights from an Ecuadorian artisan chocolate case study

Do Labour Standards Improve Employment Relationships in Global Production Networks? A Cross-sector Study in Brazil

Impact Assessment of the Cocoa Rehabilitation Project on Cocoa Exports in Ghana

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