{"id":19201,"date":"2025-04-15T17:14:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/?p=19201"},"modified":"2025-04-15T17:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:26:43","slug":"assessment-of-cocoa-buying-companies-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/assessment-of-cocoa-buying-companies-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"ASSESSMENT OF COCOA BUYING COMPANIES IN GHANA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SEND GHANA conducted an assessment of the performance of human rights, living income, environmental diligence and gender rights and women farmers\u2019 support (HLEG) of cocoa purchasing companies was undertaken in the Asene-Manso-Akroso and Agona East districts of Ghana. The study had two components: (1) an assessment of HLEG performance based on a random sampling survey of 105 cocoa farmers and (2) a qualitative analysis involving in-depth interviews of 16 elite persons with considerable knowledge of the cocoa industry in the two districts. These elite persons included five purchasing clerks and a District Director of cocoa purchasing companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/download\/19202\/?tmstv=1744736335\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"285\" src=\"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/pdf-download-image2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18869\" style=\"width:178px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/pdf-download-image2.png 720w, https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/pdf-download-image2-300x119.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Read the full report here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEND GHANA conducted an assessment of the performance of human rights, living income, environmental diligence and gender rights and women farmers\u2019 support (HLEG) of cocoa purchasing companies was undertaken in the Asene-Manso-Akroso and Agona East districts of Ghana. The study had two components: (1) an assessment of HLEG performance based on a random sampling survey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-project-reports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19206,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19201\/revisions\/19206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}