Comprende la crise du cacao
The authors, faced with the prolonged cocoa market crisis and the issues that it raises, analyze the situation at different levels and provide some explanations. Firstly, some characteristics of the market are described: the concentration of supply, duality of producing and consuming areas, the narrowness of the trading outlets, the relatively demanding nature of the crop and the ease of setting up the initial processing operations. Historical analysis of the evolution of cocoa production reveals a displacement, on the world scale, of the producing areas and the chronological succession of different market "leaders". A certain nonreproductibility, in the long term, of a competitive cocoa production system, due to various factors of agronomic and socio-economic nature, is also apparent. In this perspective, a comparison of the Cote d'Ivoire and Malaysia consists of a comparison of two producers at different phases in this cycle: this first at its apogée, the second in its exponential growth phase. These two countries also present very different production systems: a "peasant" system (with wage-earners) in the Cote d'Ivoire and a mainly industrial system in Malaysia. Some elements of future evolution in the mid-term can be predicted from an evaluation of the respective advantages and disadvantages of each of the producer countries, notably a probable decline of cocoa production in the Cote d'Ivoire.
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| Format: | biblioteca |
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| Subjects: | CACAO, MERCADEO, HISTORIA, OFERTA Y DEMANDA, SISTEMAS DE EXPLOTACION, COTE D'IVOIRE, MALASIA, |
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