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The Challenge of Child Labour in the Cocoa Sector
i looks at a programme that actually seems to be having an effect. It uses a network of smart phones to identify child laborers on thousands of remote farms in garna and the ivory coast. The main challenge is that farmers employ children not because they want to but because they simply cannot afford to hire adult workers. Either governments and companies need to subsidize these farmers, or the supermarket price of chocolate needs to go up.