Report on the beverage crop sectors in Cote d'Ivoire and Toga, based on a visit from 22 February to 8 March 1991

The international markets for both cocoa and coffee have slumped during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Developing country producers have lost many billions of dollars from the price collapse. Producing countries in West Africa have been particularly hard hit as their economies depend on coffee and cocoa for foreign exchange and for employment for the rural population