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<journal-id>0871-018X</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista de Ciências Agrárias]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. de Ciências Agrárias]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0871-018X</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Sociedade de Ciências Agrárias de Portugal]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0871-018X2020000500041</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.19084/rca.19045</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="pt"><![CDATA[Repensar a cadeia de valor do cacau biológico de São Tomé e Príncipe]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Rethink the organic cocoa value chain of Sao Tome and Principe]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Prazeres]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Ibrahim]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Lucas]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Maria Raquel]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidade de Évora  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Portugal</country>
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<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidade de Évora CEFAGE Departamento de Gestão]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Portugal</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>30</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>30</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>43</volume>
<numero>spe1</numero>
<fpage>41</fpage>
<lpage>50</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0871-018X2020000500041&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0871-018X2020000500041&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0871-018X2020000500041&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="pt"><p><![CDATA[Resumo O cacau, uma commodity importante na economia de São Tomé e Príncipe (STP) por garantir subsistência, criar emprego e desenvolvimento de microeconomias locais, e contribuir para o PIB e para a imagem do país, vem perdendo espaço no mercado internacional, pela queda do preço mundial e pela existência de monopólio ou de concentração de poder de alguns intervenientes da cadeia de valor internacional do cacau. Em consequência, não tendo o país condições para competir em termos quantitativos nem para realizar investimentos noutras economias de escala, a produção e o rendimento do produtor tem vindo a diminuir. O objetivo deste artigo foi o de caracterizar e repensar a cadeia de valor do cacau biológico em STP, identificando as suas fragilidades e potencialidades, propondo formas para a criação de valor e melhoria da sua sustentabilidade e imagem internacional. Os resultados sugerem que repensar a cadeia de valor, passa pela criação de uma IGP (Indicação Geográfica Protegida) com um controlo oficial eficaz e uma componente de promoção coletiva que permita ganhar eficiência ou escala, em articulação, de uma forma estratégica e operacional, com o turismo, o café biológico e a gastronomia, entre outros sectores fundamentais.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Cocoa is an important commodity in the economy of Sao Tome and Principe (STP) for ensuring subsistence, creating employment, developing local microeconomics and contributing to the GDP and image of the country. Thus, due to the monopoly/concentration of power in the international cocoa value chains as well as the overall price decay, the STP cocoa has been losing space in the international markets. As a result, as the country is unable to compete in quantitative terms or to invest in other economies of scale and production and producer income have been declining. This paper aims to characterize and rethink the value chain of organic cocoa in STP, identifying its weaknesses and potentialities while proposing ways to create value and improve its sustainability and international image. The results suggest that rethinking the value chain involves the creation of a PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) with effective official control and a collective promotion component that will enable it to gain efficiency or scale, in a strategic and operational articulation with tourism, coffee. and gastronomy, among other key sectors.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Cacau]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Biológico]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[STP]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Cadeia Valor]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Valorização]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Cocoa]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Organic]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[STP]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Value Chain]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Valorization]]></kwd>
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