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Cocoa Diaries Newsletter

Kwame Asamoah Kwarteng
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Analysis of all the issues happening within the Global Cocoa-Chocolate Industry

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The Global Cocoa Commodity Market Price Changes in Seconds but The Farmgate Price, ANNUALLY!

Traders hedge, manufacturers reformulate, consumers adjust and governments revise forecasts. The farmer alone is trapped behind a fixed price and may still be waiting for payment.

In the last article, I wrote about Europe setting the EUDR...

8 days ago
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Europe Sets the Clock. Africa Builds the Dashboard. Where Is the Cocoa Farmer?

Europe requires proof. African governments build traceability platforms. Companies gain compliance intelligence. The farmer provides the farm, coordinates and evidence, but may still own none.

In the previous article, I asked whether Afric...

15 days ago
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From Bean to Brand - or From Bean to Another African Bureaucracy?

Processing cocoa in Africa is not decolonisation if farmers remain raw-material suppliers to somebody else's factory. Ownership, brands and market power matter more than grinding statistics.

Last week, I asked what Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire...

22 days ago
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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...

a month ago
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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...

a month ago
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