The literature around value chains for development focus much attention on the ability to use a value chain approach for funneling investment from supply chain participants (e.g. private buying, retailing, or training companies) or vested organizations and institutions (NGOs and governments, for example) (Hebebrand, 2011; Humphrey, 2005; Reardon and Timmer, 2007; Hawkes and Ruel, 2011). Often, these investments are undertaken in order to increase productivity and include training, technology transfer, or access to credit. Initiatives linking farmers to higher value markets often cite opportunities to provide new (or better) access to services as a critical function of value chains for development. In Ghana, however, the Ghanaian government plays an important role in delivering services to cocoa growers and undertaking research and extension for conventional cocoa growing communities. Higher value growers, like RA/org, and FFV, for example, may use these services when not explicitly against their certification or value chain standards (e.g. RA growers have chemical input restrictions, making government spraying programs irrelevant). As a result, detangling these government benefits from benefits that are exclusively available to higher value growers, is a complicated task. To be sure, most governmental services are intended for growers engaged in conventional cocoa production, but the spillover benefits to other types of value chains are not well understood.