🌍 Africa 3d ago · Anthony Oppong Kyekyeku

Ghana’s Cocoa Crisis Is Not a Price Story: It Is a Governance Failure

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Ghana’s Cocoa Crisis Is Not a Price Story: It Is a Governance Failure
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In February 2026, Ghana did something it had not done in living memory. It cut the guaranteed farm-gate cocoa price by 28.6 percent in a single announcement – from GH₵58,000 to GH₵41,392 per tonne – stripping income from approximately 800,000 smallholder farming households, or roughly 3.2 million Ghanaians whose primary livelihood depends on cocoa. For a farmer in Sefwi Wiawso, losing GH₵1,038 per bag is not an abstraction. It is unpaid school fees. It is a turn toward illegal mining

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