S7 E10: The Extracted
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Hardships of Cocoa Farmers
- Ugochi Anyaka-Oluigbo met Yao Adelin, a 37-year-old cocoa farmer in West Africa, who works on a cacao farm with her 3-year-old daughter.
- Adelin expresses the hardships of life as a cocoa farmer, lacking basic necessities like good roads, clean water, and quality education.
- She desires a better life for her daughter and doesn't see a future for her children in cocoa farming, echoing the sentiments of other farmers in the region.
- This situation is common in West African cocoa-producing countries, where farmers struggle despite the industry's multi-billion dollar value.
- Cocoa farmers receive only about 7% of global chocolate industry sales, often earning less than $1 a day, placing them below the World Bank's extreme poverty threshold.
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