Governing the Organic Cocoa Network from Ghana: Towards Hybrid Governance Arrangements?

Journal of Agrarian Change

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 43-64

  Glin, Laurent C ^a,b   Oosterveer, Peter ^a   Mol, Arthur P J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b FiBL (Research Institute of Organic Agriculture) West Africa   (Mali)

Author keywords

Ghana; Global commodity network; Governance; Organic cocoa; State; Trust

Indexed keywords

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 84919333704     PISSN: 14710358     EISSN: 14710366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joac.12059     Document Type: Article

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