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Breaking Market Power: How Hermetic Storage Empowers Smallholder Cocoa Farmers in Colombia

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  • Foster, Kenneth
  • Zurita, Carlos
  • Guzman, Lina Maria Suarez
  • Sepulveda, Diana Carolina Meza
  • Baributsa, Dieudonne

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  • Foster, Kenneth & Zurita, Carlos & Guzman, Lina Maria Suarez & Sepulveda, Diana Carolina Meza & Baributsa, Dieudonne, 2025. "Breaking Market Power: How Hermetic Storage Empowers Smallholder Cocoa Farmers in Colombia," International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics (IJFAEC), Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Department of Economics and Finance, vol. 13(3), July.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:ijfaec:374831
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.374831
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