Sentences with phrase «falling cocoa prices»

He concludes that the demand pressures for increased cocoa exports, changing weather patterns and falling cocoa prices, has led to more monocropping — the agricultural practice of growing only one type of agricultural product in a large area of land, year after year — and less sustainable growing practices in recent years.

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Cocoa growing communities, particularly in West Africa, are facing poverty, child labour and deforestation that have been made worse by a rapid fall in prices for cocoa.

With the two countries responsible for 60 % of the world's cocoa output, fluctuations of cocoa prices on the international market, marked by a fall of...

Intelligence gathered by The Finder indicates that staff of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) are demanding salary increment despite a myriad of challenges, including the huge fall in the price of raw cocoa beans on the world market and GH 10 billion debt overhang inherited by the new management.

COCOBOD has debunked assertions by the Minority group in Parliament that government is offering cocoa producers a terrible deal by its decision not to increase cocoa producer price due to fall in world market price.

The farm gate price, on the other hand, has remained the same at GH cents 7,600.00 per tonne despite the fall in the world cocoa price.