West Africa cocoa Archives

Measuring child labour on Ivorian cocoa farms certified child-labour-free : the way you ask matters

The definition of child labour on cocoa farms in West Africa is still in dispute Dr.Richard Asare/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA Marine Jouvin, Université de Bordeaux The evidence of child labour on cocoa farms in West Africa became public knowledge in the late 1990s. This followed press reports documenting the existence of hazardous child labour on cocoa farms. Pressure on the cocoa …

Shutterstock/ivan_kislitsin Michael Rogerson, University of Bath; Glenn Parry, University of Surrey et Pedro Lafargue, University of the West of England Chocolate has a special place in many of our lives. It is widely seen as an affordable and essentially harmless treat – a food of comfort, celebration and joy. But those bars, cakes and Easter eggs are also part of …