From Firestone to Michelin, a History of Rubber Cultivation in a Cocoa-Growing Country: Ghana
| Autor: | François Ruf, Emmanuel Akwasi Owusu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Economic growth
Jeune travailleur Développement agricole Agricultural economics Economics Revenu de l'exploitation Elaeis guineensis B50 - Histoire Projet de développement Prix biology Hevea brasiliensis Rendement des cultures E16 - Économie de la production Diversification Value (economics) Agriculteur Exploitation agricole familiale E70 - Commerce commercialisation et distribution Public policy Diversification (marketing strategy) Histoire Procurement Fixed price Theobroma cacao Cocos nucifera Caoutchouc Rôle des femmes E80 - Économie familiale et artisanale Analyse économique biology.organism_classification K10 - Production forestière Currency Choix des espèces Monoculture |
| Zdroj: | Economics and Ecology of Diversification ISBN: 9789401772938 Economics and ecology of diversification: the case of tropical tree crops |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-94-017-7294-5_8 |
| Popis: | In Ghana, many cocoa and coconut farmers started to adopt rubber in the 1990s and 2000s. Public policies played a major role in the diversification process. What were the other factors in this success? Combined with a transparent mechanism to fix procurement prices paid to the farmer, world prices have led to a dramatic increase in incomes. Subsequently, since 2012, despite the collapse of the world price of rubber, this mechanism has also proven to be a strong defence against the rapid erosion of the national currency's value. This is not so for cocoa, where farmers deal with a fixed price in Cedis. This helps to explain the strong confidence placed in rubber cultivation in Ghana at the expense of cocoa. Diversification is also viewed as a structural response to decades of monoculture. Regardless of whether it was cocoa or coconut, each region that adopted rubber witnessed the signs of fatigue and wear in these quasi-monoculture systems. |
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