cocoa industryVoluntary private sector agreements are common as a tool to regulate industries including the enforcement of labor laws in domestic and overseas markets. Agreements cover many different industries, and they differ greatly in scope, implementation and monitoring. Challenging to enforce, they...
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Learn about Nestlé's efforts to combat child labor in the cocoa supply chain and where our chocolate comes from.
Christiaan Grootaert, ‘“Child Labor in Côte d’Ivoire: Incidence and Determinants,”World Bank Policy Research Working Paper(November 1999); Guy B. Nkamleu and Anne Kielland, “Modeling farmers” decisions on child labor and schooling in the cocoa sector: a multinomial logit analysis in C...
forms of child labor. This year, we significantly expanded the range of farmer groups and communities covered by child labor monitoring and remediation systems. Our monitoring and remediation approach is based on the industry practice as developed by the International ...
An increase in cocoa price by 2.8 percent could potentially eliminate the very worst forms of child labor from cocoa production in Ghana, according to a new economic model described in a study published June 5, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by
Changing the behaviors and attitudes of those that rely on the cocoa production, mainly the farmers, will create a lasting effect as globalization impacts the dominant values regarding the child labor that envelopes the region of the West Africa....
The chocolate industry has problems. Twenty years after promising to phase out the “worst forms” ofchild labor on cocoa plantations, chocolate brands still haven’t succeeded. In Ivory Coast, where a third of the world’s cocoa is grown, rainforests are plowed down for ...
Cocoa Production : CRS Report for Congress Child Labor in West African Cocoa Production :CRS Report for Congress Child Labor in West African Cocoa Production :Policy, U SHanrahan, CharlesCook, Nicolas
The Sustainable Tree Crops Program has created two working groups on the survey and programmatic response to the issue of trafficking of children for labor. First a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) was established to ensure balance and independence of the surveys and to provide oversight. The TAC...