Children in the Cocoa Fields
Sustainability Now
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Child Labor on Cocoa in West Africa
Cocoa farming is a very labor intensive process. It requires cutting pods off the trees, cutting the pods open with machetes and then taking out the pulp and leaving it to dry in an open area. And so even in a situation where productivity increases., that won't necessarily improve farm income because some of them has to harvest all that. There are one point six million children in gananco divir right now who are engaging in some sort of farm labor activity. So ultimately, there are a lot of systemic challenges within the coco industry that may not necessarily be fixed immediately.
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