[HTML][HTML] Agroecology as a means to improve energy metabolism and economic management in smallholder cocoa farmers in the Ecuadorian Amazon

C Caicedo-Vargas, D Pérez-Neira… - Sustainable Production …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cocoa is one of the most important crops in Ecuador, especially in the Ecuadorian Amazon,
where> 60,000 ha are dedicated to cocoa; 48,600 ha in production in 2021. Most of the …

Welfare implications of participating in agri‐value chains among vegetable farmers in Northern Ghana

W Ma, A Abdul‐Rahaman, G Issahaku - Agribusiness, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the welfare implications of agri‐value chain participation utilizing
data collected from 423 smallholder vegetable farmers in northern Ghana. The endogenous …

Map** social impacts of agricultural commodity trade onto the sustainable development goals

M Schaafsma, I Dreoni, LM Ayompe… - Sustainable …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
While international trade in agricultural commodities can spur economic development
especially where governance is strong, there are also concerns about the local impacts of …

Social Life Cycle Assessment of Cocoa Production: Evidence from Ivory Coast and Ghana

G Vinci, M Ruggeri, L Gobbi, M Savastano - Resources, 2024 - search.proquest.com
Cocoa is a natural resource that plays a very important role globally, being one of the most
produced and traded commodities. As a labour-intensive product and considering that its …

[PDF][PDF] Progress in Energy

T Raji, A Allee, NJ Williams - 2024 - researchgate.net
Abstract Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries often prioritize electrification as an important
component of their infrastructure development, anticipating that electricity access will …

[PDF][PDF] Social Life Cycle Assessment of Cocoa Production: Evidence from West Africa

G Vinci, M Ruggeri, L Gobbi, M Savastano - 2024 - preprints.org
Cocoa is a natural resource that plays a very important role globally, being one of the most
produced and traded commodities. Being a labor-intensive product and considering that its …

Detecting and Extracting Cocoa Pods in the Natural Environment Using Deep Learning Methods

KJ Ayikpa, D Mamadou, SG Sod**ou, AB Ballo… - … Conference on Digital …, 2023 - Springer
Applications for image processing increasingly rely on object extraction and detection. The
harvesting of cocoa pods produces the cocoa beans used to make chocolate. One of the …

[PDF][PDF] Deliverable 2.1

B Lead, N AUTH, M JLU, GFA CAPNUTRA, MY EGE… - 2022 - biovalue-project.eu
WP-2 assesses the current framework of agri-food value chain tools by analyzing the
existing instruments for policy application, simulation, optimization, database and modelling …