Child labour in cocoa production
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child-labour-in-cocoa-production-173-8229228
title:
Child labour in cocoa production
text:
Child labour is a recurring issue in cocoa production. Ivory Coast and Ghana, together produce nearly 60% of the world's cocoa each year. During the 2018/19 cocoa-growing season, research commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor was conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago in these two countries and found that 1.48 million children are engaged in hazardous work on cocoa farms including working with sharp tools and agricultural chemicals and carrying heavy loads. That number of children
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description:
Controversial use of children in the production of cacao beans
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour_in_cocoa_production
date created:
2005-09-16T18:09:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T07:30:00Z
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