World’s chocolate supply relies on more than 1 million child workers

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World’s chocolate supply relies on more than 1 million child workers

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The world’s chocolate companies depend on cocoa produced in West Africa with more than 1 million child laborers, according to a new report sponsored by the Labor Department.

Under pressure from Congress in 2001, some of the world’s largest chocolate companies — including Nestle, Hershey and Mars — pledged to eradicate “the worst forms of child labor” from their sources in West Africa, the world’s most important supply. Since then, however, the firms have missed deadlines to eliminate child labor in 2005, 2008 and 2010.

Each time, they have promised to do better, but the new report indicates that the incidence of child labor in West African cocoa production has risen.

20 years after pledging to eradicate the practice, chocolate companies still could not identify the farms where all their cocoa comes from, let alone whether child labor was used in producing it.

The prevalence of child labor among agricultural households in cocoa-growing areas of Ivory Coast and Ghana, the two primary suppliers, increased from 31 percent to 45 percent between 2008 and 2019, according to the Labor Department survey conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago.
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