{"podcast":{"title":"The Chocolate Conservatory","slug":"the-chocolate-conservatory-7712281","podcast_index_feed_id":7712281,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/choco-conservatory/","website_url":"https://choco-conservatory.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/277b35a1-a2a4-4099-88dc-66c9ae33d244/chocolate-conservatory-new-2.png","author":"Institute of Cacao and Chocolate Research","episode_count":9,"summary":"Welcome to the Chocolate Conservatory, a podcast brought to you by the Institute for Cacao and Chocolate Research and Heirloom Cacao Preservation Fund. In each episode, scholars Carla D. Martin and Jose Lopez Ganem host a conversation with researchers and industry members engaged in the study of pressing issues related to cacao and chocolate. They use these conversations to bring research to life and put you in the middle of the questions being asked and solutions being proposed and practiced. From the social sciences to hard sciences, arts and humanities to business and finance, they take you directly to the thinkers who are shaping conversations today. Get in touch with us! Send your voice recordings and emails to contact@chocolateinstitute.org with suggestions for topics, guests, or what how you might answer the questions we ask and we might just use it on the show!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-18T00:18:29.814481+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chocolate-conservatory-7712281"},"episode":{"title":"Cocoa Price Crisis: Ghana","slug":"cocoa-price-crisis-ghana","published_at":"2026-03-27T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chocolate-conservatory-7712281/cocoa-price-crisis-ghana","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chocolate-conservatory-7712281","url":"https://choco-conservatory.captivate.fm","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d9abdb5d-67af-4b8e-8e30-da74d5646464.mp3","summary":"Harvard historian Emmanuel Akyeampong and Fuad Mohammed Abubakar of Ghana's Cocoa Marketing Company join Carla to discuss how Ghana's cocoa pricing developed and the challenges and pitfalls of navigating farmgate pricing in a volatile futures market. Google Drive Folder to Fuad Mohammed Abubakar charts mentioned during the episode: https://tinyurl.com/uzxfetfb More Resources about our Guests: Read Professor Akyeampong's book Independent Africa for more on the history of cocoa in Ghana: https://iupress.org/9780253066657/independent-africa/ Find Fuad's articles on Ghana and cocoa pricing here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qxdVjKwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra Find Fuad's Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fuadabubakarmohammed/","meta_description":"Harvard historian Emmanuel Akyeampong and Fuad Mohammed Abubakar of Ghana's Cocoa Marketing Company join Carla to discuss how Ghana's cocoa pricing develo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3618,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-chocolate-conservatory-7712281/episodes/cocoa-price-crisis-ghana/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chocolate-conservatory-7712281/cocoa-price-crisis-ghana.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}