Increasing the price of cocoa by a mere 2.8 percent could provide farmers with enough income to hire qualified adult labor, instead of relying on children.

Freda Denis-Cooper reads her poem "Cocoa Beans," dedicated to the children of Cote Dvoire, West Africa, to bring attention to the issue of child labor. Cooper lives in Durham, N.C. Her collection ...

Instead of turning to cheaper cocoa possibly harvested as the product of illegal child labor, Tony's has committed to buying traceable beans, meaning the company knows where its cocoa comes from ...

Cocoa harvested by children ends up in America’s most popular chocolates. Child welfare advocates are asking a judge to force the U.S. to block those imports.

Mars, the maker of some of America's most beloved candies, has been exposed for using child labor to harvest cocoa beans in Ghana, a new bombshell report found. CBS News visited Ghana's remote ...

The use of child labour in cocoa farming seems cheap at first sight but when we consider the impact of their activities on the farm, they are expensive and have dire economic impact on every ...

In March 2024, the price of cocoa beans traded on the international market rose sharply, reaching $10,000 per tonne, more than three times the typical average price. The unprecedented surge shone ...

Eight years after reports of child labour and slavery on West Africa's cocoa fields first emerged, progress in eradicating child labour has been slow.

The company behind some of your favorite chocolate bars is accused of relying on child labor to assist in the harvest of cocoa beans used in its products, like M&M's and Snickers. After a visit ...

Taco Terheijden, Director of Cocoa Sustainability at Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, reflects on the importance of SDG 8.7 and how the new Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System within the Cargill ...

Children in Ghana, some as young as 5, are working cocoa fields and wielding machetes instead of attending school.

The cocoa beans from the new, co-branded treats will be sourced through Tony's Open Chain — an open-source initiative launched by Tony’s in 2019 that shares knowledge and tools to help companies in ...