The humble cocoa pod receives scant attention these days. All the talk in Ghana is of oil. In the second half of next year – if $3bn development plans keep to schedule – Ghana will begin pumping 120,000 barrels a day of crude.
Revenues from the most advanced in a string of offshore discoveries, the Jubilee field, will quickly surpass the foreign exchange earnings harvested by hundreds of thousands of smallholding cocoa farmers.
