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Cocoa Cycles: The Economics of Cocoa Supply. - book reviews
American Journal of Economics and Sociology, The, July, 1996 by Frank C. Genovese
The international cocoa conference on Cocoa Economics (ICCE) organized by ASKINDO (Asosiasi Kokao Indonesia) and CIRAD (Centre de cooperation internationale en recherche agronomique pour le developpment) in Bali in 1993 has resulted in a book edited by Francois Ruf and P. S. Siswoputranto with English editing assistance by Debbie Taylor, Cocoa Cycles. The Economics of Cocoa Supply (1995: Woodhead Publishing Ltd., Cambridge, England) and a companion volume in French by the first author (Booms and crises du cacao. Les vertiges de l'or brun). While explaining the dynamics of the cocoa supply they contribute to greater understanding of major ecological, economic and institutional changes occurring in rainforest and former rainforest regions. They analyze in detail the factors behind conversion of forest to smallholder, monoculture farms and document the progression from monoculture to agroforestry (and back to reforestation?) which has occurred in several countries.
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The problems of labor supply, geographical shifts in production and the consequences of disease are explained and the ecological and technical base of cocoa production examined in the light of powerful economic, social and political considerations.
Economists, scientists, agro-foresters, agriculturalists, environmentalists and others involved in development will be interested in several lessons learned from the experience of those involved in cocoa production and policy-making. The analysis of the cycles that involved deforestation, mass migrations, pioneer fronts, externalities of monoculture, property rights, trees capital and family life cycles can be applied in the analysis of other tree crops, farming systems and commodities such as rubber, palm oil, cloves, pepper and coffee.
Francois Ruf is responsible for an economic research program on cocoa at CIRAD/ASKINDO in Jakarta, P. S. Siswoputranto is executive director of ASKINDO in charge of promoting Indonesian cocoa.
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