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Coco Labour Impact

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NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF COCOA PRODUCTION ON AFRICAN SOCIETIES
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As most of the children of Western Africa are surrounded by intense poverty, most start to work even as children in order to support their families. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that many small farms are family-owned, thus children are obligated to help out at the farm. In other cases, children are kidnapped from neighbouring African countries such as Burkina Faso by traffickers and have no social resources to escape. Reporters claim to have found children as young as five years old working on cocoa production farms .
Nestlé as a case study shows how pervasive and complex the problem is. Despite Nestlé’s code of conduct against the usage of child labour and its …show more content…

In essence, when a product is labelled with the Fairtrade logo, it means that the product has meant the ‘Fairtrade Standards’, which include a minimum wage and price for the producers (versus the market price, and pays farmers whichever is higher), protection against the use of child labour and transparency. It protects farmers by allowing them a fairer deal for the goods they sell, instead of being exploited, and it allows consumers to ‘reduce poverty through their everyday shopping’ through giving them an informed decision with regards to the products they buy . Cocoa is one of the main products that Fairtrade has …show more content…

(Fairtrade International, n.d.-a)
As seen in figure 2, Fairtrade has protected farmers from the volatility of the market price for chocolate by fixing a minimum price, and has always given farmers at least the market price for their goods. And thus, for those producers who have worked with Fairtrade International, it has mitigated the costs to socio-economic conditions as well as labour exploitation.
Further, from 2012-2013, cocoa producers who have worked with Fairtrade received 9.8 million euros in Premium money from cocoa sales, around half of which is used for investment in improving production and processing , thus ensuring that not only do the farmers have benefits in the short-term in terms of getting fairer prices for their goods, they are able to improve their long-term working conditions through these investments.
However, one limitation is that a mere 0.5% of cocoa sold is marked with the Fairtrade label , thus there is still much room for improvement in ensuring a fairer chocolate industry. Furthermore, the success for this depends highly on the consumers – whether they are willing to pay more for a bar of chocolate that is certified to be made from ethical and sustainable sources despite a multitude of various cheaper alternatives

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