Research and Reports20 July 2006Pilot Labour Survey in Cocoa ProductionRead MoreIn 2006 Ghana's Ministry of Manpower, Youth & Employment in collaboration with COCOBOD, the Ministry of Manpower and Economic Planning and the World Cocoa Foundation undertook a pilot labour survey in cocoa production as a step towards addressing labour issues.
Research and Reports1 November 2005Child Labor in Ghana Cocoa Production: Focus Upon Agricultural Tasks, Ergonomic Exposures, and Associated Injuries and IllnessesRead MoreThis study set out to determine the occupational hazards experienced by children harvesting cocoa in western Ghana.- Research and Reports1 June 2005The cocoa industry and child labourRead MoreThis article recounts the history of the international cocoa industry moving toward the acknowledgement of serious labour issues in the global cocoa supply chain, and then a public commitment to act to address the problems.
- Research and Reports22 August 2002Child Labor in the Cocoa Sector of West AfricaRead MoreThe primary strategic objectives of this study vis-à-vis child labor were to document the number of children working in the cocoa sector; their status with respect to origin, mode of recruitment (if hired labor), position in farm household, and school attendance; the conditions in which these children work; and the reasons for child labor in the cocoa sector.
Laws and Regulations4 October 2001Harkin Engel ProtocolRead MoreIn September 2001, chocolate and cocoa industry representatives signed an agreement, developed in partnership with Senator Tom Harkin and Representative Eliot Engel, to eliminate the worst forms of child labour in the growing and processing of cocoa beans and their derivative products wherever cocoa is grown.