date:Mar 26, 2019
humanitarian practices. In the past, some parts of the cocoa industry have been widely criticized for involvement in child labor and environmental degradation, among other issues.
Reports of minors being made to work in Cte dIvoire, Ghana and other cocoa-producing countries date back two decades or more. According to the 2018 Cocoa Barometer, a report by 15 European non-profit organizations, as many as 2.1 million child laborers are working in West Africa alone. Deforestation is one of the bigg