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 […]
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 […]