Tackling deforestation: In Ivory Coast, a battle to save cocoa-ravaged forests
JOE BAVIER, MAYTAAL ANGEL and ANGE ABOA, of Reuters, report on efforts to protect forests in the West African nation…
Cocoa-growing Ivory Coast draws up new plan to stop child labour
Dakar, SenegalThomson Reuters Foundation Ivory Coast has launched a new strategy to end child labour in cocoa farming and other sectors by raising women’s incomes and building schools, the government said on Wednesday. The plan is more wide-reaching than previous ones and aims to tackle household poverty as the root cause of child labour, said […]
Ghana, Ivory Coast cocoa floor price seen as small step toward ending child labour
Dakar, SenegalThomson Reuters Foundation Ghana and Ivory Coast’s move this week to set a minimum price for cocoa beans could help reduce child labour, though it will not be enough on its own, advocates said on Friday. The two West African countries, which together supply about 65 per cent of the world’s cocoa, proposed a […]
Cocoa companies fail on pledge to stop Africa deforestation – report
Thomson Reuters Foundation Major chocolate companies have failed to keep a promise they made a year ago to stop forests in West Africa being destroyed for cocoa production, a campaign group said on Friday. Companies from Mars to Hershey to Barry Callebaut joined the governments of Ivory Coast and Ghana to launch the Cocoa and […]