News for the 3rd Quarter of 2008 DENTAL CARE NETWORK™: "Does Chocolate make you smile? Roughly two-thirds of the entire world’s cocoa is produced in West Africa, with close to half of the total sourced from the Ivory Coast. Individual cocoa farmers are paid prices that vary with the world markets. While investors trading in cocoa can dump shares at will, individual cocoa farmers cannot increase production or abandon trees which are their only livelihood.
Cocoa farmers are poorer than they were 30 years ago. An estimated 90% of cocoa farms in Ivory Coast have to use some form of slave or indentured labour in order to remain viable. Most cocoa farmers are forced to use their own or enslaved children to work in the fields, instead of sending them to school."
Saturday, January 9, 2010
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