Improving Capacity Building and Knowledge Sharing to Support Management of Cadmium Levels In Cocoa in Latin America and the Caribbean for Export to the EU

En respuesta a los niveles máximos estrictos para el contenido de cadmio en los productos de cacao y chocolate importados a la EU se diseña el Proyecto Cadmio en el Cacao. Este pretende apoyar a los países (Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Trinidad & Tobago) a desarrollar una vía que facilite y mejore el conocimiento actual de dichos países, así se pueden renovar las prácticas en las cadenas de valor del cacao de ALC para mitigar el cadmio en el cacao de la región y cumplir con las regulaciones internacionales sobre concentraciones del mismo en productos derivados del cacao, mismas que puedan ser adoptadas por otros países en el sector cacaotero. Además, como resultados están el apoyo brindado en la coordinación e intercambio de información sobre las mejores prácticas para la mitigación y remediación del cadmio en el cacao, el desarrollo y estandarización de la capacidad técnica para analizar los niveles de cadmio, mejor conocimiento de la presencia de cadmio en las áreas de cultivo de cacao de los países del proyecto a través del análisis y el mapeo y la difusión de los resultados a las partes interesadas del cacao a través de talleres

Oil and Cocoa in the Political Economy of Ghana-EU Relations: Whither Sustainable Development?

Oil and cocoa represent strategic export commodities for the Ghanaian economy, prioritised within the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda. This article examines these sectors in the context of Ghana’s relations with the European Union (EU). Notably, the EU constitutes the most important market for Ghanaian exports. The European Commission, moreover, has pledged to tangibly assist private sector development in Ghana, with particular reference to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through its focus on oil and cocoa, the article problematises certain aspects of EU aid and trade interventions with respect to normative SDG development pledges

The world cocoa market An analysis of recent trends and of prospects to the year 2000

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New thinking in international trade? A case study of The Day Chocolate Company

This paper explores the experience of The Day Chocolate Company (Day) in connecting small-scale cocoa farmers more directly into global markets by making the farmers significant shareholders, and therefore equity owners, within this fair trade company. It examines how Day combines both social and business goals, thus providing an alternative model to conventional international trade. The paper investigates the positive impacts that this unique fair trade model has achieved on Kuapa Kokoo (Kuapa) members in Ghana from the Fairtrade relationship coupled with the equity stake and explores how Day has achieved its business goals in what is a highly competitive UK chocolate market. Further, it explores the challenges the company has faced and the lessons learnt over the past six years. Overall, the paper concludes that Day could not have been successful in meeting its objectives without cocoa farmer ownership being at the centre of the brand. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.