“Too many cocoa farmers are still living in poverty. Deforestation, child labour, gender inequality,…
“Too many cocoa farmers are still living in poverty. Deforestation, child labour, gender inequality, human rights violations and many other challenges are a daily reality in many cocoa regions. We affirm the cocoa sector will not be sustainable if farmers are not able to earn a living income.”
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Another sobering quote from the article:
“Within a US$100 billion confectionary industry, roughly US$6 billion is paid to farmers—a figure [snip] contrasted with the US$15 billion distributed to governments as Value Added Taxes (VAT). The implications are staggering: more money goes toward paying taxes on cocoa and chocolate than to the farmers who spend years sustaining the crop.”