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# “Too many cocoa farmers are still living in poverty. Deforestation, child labour, gender inequality,…
- URL: https://thechocolatelife.com/too-many-cocoa-farmers-are-still-living-in-poverty-deforestation-child-labour-gender-inequality/
- Published: 2018-06-12T14:19:44.000Z
- Updated: 2021-01-10T23:02:16.000Z
- Author: The Archivist
- Tags: TCL Originals, The Stacks

“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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Comment by: DiscoverChoc

Posted on: Jun 12, 2018

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*.”