Cocoa Diaries Newsletter
Kwame Asamoah KwartengAnalysis of all the issues happening within the Global Cocoa-Chocolate Industry
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Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire Will Harmonise Cocoa Prices. Whose Price Will They Harmonise?
Two governments agreeing on prices, premiums and crop calendars may reduce destructive competition. But state coordination is not automatically farmer bargaining power.
In the first two articles of this series, I followed the Ghanaian coco...
COCOBOD Free Fertiliser: Farmer Support or Control Over Cocoa Income?
The fertiliser may be useful, but it is not truly free when the cocoa system captures value from farmers, controls what is purchased, decides when it is distributed and then asks farmers to be gratefu
Last week, I followed COCOBOD’s GH¢2.6...
GH¢2.6 Billion Was Released. So Why Are Cocoa Farmers Still Waiting?
COCOBOD says billions of cedis were released through licensed buying companies. But money leaving COCOBOD is not the same as money reaching the farmer who already surrendered his cocoa.
On 2 July 2026, the Ghana Cocoa Board announced that...
Western Induced Sustainability Trap in Cocoa: Was It Ever for Cocoa Farmers or someone else we all Know?
Western induced sustainability Initiatives as market management, risk control, corporate reputation, European consumer comfort, compliance machine, dashboard etc?
In the last four essays, I followed one argument through four doors. First,...
Mondelez, Olam and the Commercial Cocoa Farm: Did Cocoa Farmers Train Their Replacement?
Mondelez and Olam said their commercial cocoa farm model builds on Cocoa Life and Cocoa Compass. That sentence should worry every cocoa farmer, because it suggests sustainability programmes did not on
In the first article, I asked who owns...
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