From Raw Materials to Global Markets: How Brazil Transformed Its Agricultural Value Chains and What Africa Can Replicate The story is told in two contrasting numbers. Africa produces approximately 70 percent of the world's raw cocoa, yet it only produces 16 percent of intermediate cocoa products, which are worth two to three times more per ton than the raw cocoa beans. Meanwhile, in Brazil, agribusiness as a whole including agricultural inputs and processing accounted for alm

How women from Africa and Brazil are changing the status quo and creating opportunities in the agribusiness sector