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The documentary starts in Cologne, Germany where Mistrati asks several chocolate company representatives whether they are aware of child labour in cocoa farms. In Mali , the film shows that children, having been promised paid work, are taken to towns near the border such as Zégoua , from where another trafficker transports the children over ...
During the 2018/19 cocoa-growing season, research commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor was conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago in these two countries and found that 1.48 million children are engaged in hazardous work on cocoa farms including working with sharp tools and agricultural chemicals and carrying heavy loads.
Boy collecting cocoa after beans have dried. The Harkin–Engel Protocol, [a] sometimes referred to as the Cocoa Protocol, is an international agreement aimed at ending the worst forms of child labor (according to the International Labour Organization's Convention 182) and forced labor (according to ILO Convention 29) in the production of cocoa, the main ingredient in chocolate.
A bean-to-bar company produces chocolate by processing cocoa beans into a product in-house, rather than melting chocolate from another manufacturer. Some are large companies that own the entire process for economic reasons; others are small- or micro-batch producers and aim to control the whole process to improve quality, working conditions, or environmental impact.
Sitting next to her during an unseasonal downpour, fellow cocoa farmer John Asaseba said: “If we don’t change, in 20 years’ time our children won’t have any future.
He started a celery farm in 1926 with 40 acres (16 ha). [1] With celery as the cash crop, Duda had around 2,500 acres (1,000 ha) in the 1940s. The family diversified into beef cattle ranching at their Cocoa Ranch, near Cocoa, Florida. By the 1970s, it had 20,000 cattle. The business was incorporated in 1953.
Child labour was growing in some West African countries in 2008–09 when it was estimated that 819,921 children worked on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast alone; by 2013–14, the number went up to 1,303,009. During the same period in Ghana, the estimated number of children working on cocoa farms was 957,398 children. [56]
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