'2018 Cocoa Barometer' Report Paints Dark Chocolate Picture: as Prices Fall, Woes Rise for Farmers, Children, Forests
April 19, 2018
April 19, 2018
BERLIN, Germany, April 19 -- Green America issued the following news release:
Cocoa-growing communities, particularly in West Africa, are facing poverty, child labor and deforestation that have been made worse by a rapid fall in prices for cocoa. Widely touted efforts in the cocoa industry to improve the lives of farmers, communities and the environment made in the past decade are having little impact. In fact, the modest scope of the proposed solutions does not even come close to a . . .
Cocoa-growing communities, particularly in West Africa, are facing poverty, child labor and deforestation that have been made worse by a rapid fall in prices for cocoa. Widely touted efforts in the cocoa industry to improve the lives of farmers, communities and the environment made in the past decade are having little impact. In fact, the modest scope of the proposed solutions does not even come close to a . . .