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Keyword: Cocoa

Vent for surplus or Productivity Breakthrough? The Ghanian Cocoa Take-Off, c. 1890-1936

Gareth Austin

Posted in Working Papers

Through a case-study of cocoa-farming in Ghana, this paper takes up the longrunning but recently neglected debate about the ‘cash crop revolution’ in tropical Africa during the early colonial period. It focuses...
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