Ressources

This report describes examples of methods used by Terre des Hommes, their partners around the world and other relevant stakeholders to address child labour successfully.

Cette étude par ICI explore le lien entre les incidences de travail des enfants et la qualité de l'éducation dans les communautés productrices de cacao en Côte d’Ivoire et au Ghana.

En 2018, la Fondation International Cocoa Initiative s'est efforcée de soutenir les communautés, de renforcer les chaînes d'approvisionnement, de s'engager auprès des autorités nationales et de plaider au niveau international pour un cacao durable et exempt de travail des enfants.

Acumen partnered with Hershey to publish Cocoa Interrupted: The Role of Social Enterprise in Cocoa Sustainability. The report highlights the stories social enterprises in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire that use for-profit models to creatively and sustainably address the varied needs of cocoa-growing communities. It includes concrete recommendations for how to add social enterprise to a corporate sustainability toolkit.

Cocoa farmers face a huge number of challenges, but one lies at the root of many of them: most farmers’ incomes are simply too low. Estimates before the price of cocoa crashed between September 2016 and February 2017 suggested that the price cocoa farmers receive represents less than seven percent of the value of cocoa sold in Europe.