child labor rightsvoluntary agreementsinternational developmentworst forms of child laborcocoa 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 ...
Industry Principles to Address Child Labor Introduction As the trade association representing United States users of imported cocoa, the National Confectioners Association (NCA), its member companies and partner organizations like the World Cocoa Foundation and the Cocoa Merchants Association of America take...
Farmer poverty (CBI, 2023) and labour-related issues, particularly the use of child labour (Fountain and Hütz-Adams, 2020) have been identified as the most significant social sustainability challenges in the cocoa industry. There is a high prevalence of the use of child labour on cocoa planta...
Our cocoa suppliers in Ghana have agreed to adhere to our robust Supplier Code of Conduct and we have also been clear that they must have a Child Labor and Remediation System (CLMRS) in place by 2025 that complies with the industry leading International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) standard. Over ...
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 ...
Let's make the vision of sustainable cocoa a reality. By working together as an industry to scale impact and drive change for cocoa farming communities...
re collaborating with farmers through farmer groups to direct source even more of our cocoa and help them build stable livelihoods and financial resilience. This is the foundation for how we are partnering with the people behind our beans to eliminate child labor and embed mor...
Let's make the vision of sustainable cocoa a reality. By working together as an industry to scale impact and drive change for cocoa farming communities...
These partnerships have been vital to our progress in advancing sustainability, addressing systemic challenges and enforcing our Supplier Code of Conduct, which addresses forced and child labor. We’re also a member of the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF), which works with the food industry to address...
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...