master_thesis_nina_zwart_-_closing_the_living_income_gap_a_case-study_analysis_of_initiatives_in_the_ghanaian_cocoa_sector.pdf
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… texts were considered the main source of data and are presented in appendix 5. For transcription, the non-verbatim transcription method was used. The interviews conducted in Dutch were first transcribed in Dutch and translated to English, using the online programme DeepL. One interviewee checked the transcript. Initials of the person speaking were put in bold before the spoken text. The transcripts were coded to draw conclusions from the interviews. All transcripts were read multiple times. In … stated that “there are now thousands and thousands of apps and other digital solutions but nothing is done with consolidation. […] Because it is nice to develop another app for a farmer with all that comes with it. But if that data cannot then be exchanged because taxonomies are incorrect, data structures are not in place, there is no decent data analysis capacity because that is actually the big shortcoming.” This is also recognised by mister Kwapong-Akuffo (personal communication, August 1, … also, for example, the price is set and then it is converted to local currency. You realise that over time, because a local currency depreciates, it affects the real value of the income that cocoa farmers get. So if the farm gate price can be set in foreign currency and paid to the farmers in foreign currency, or even if not in foreign currency at a prevailing estimate rate, we believe that that would help in addressing the issues of important inflation that affects the value of the price that the …
