Women in Cocoa

Zimbabwean sustainability expert, Professor Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, has been approved by shareholders to Nestlé's Board of Directors at the company's 154th Annual General Meeting held at Vevey, Switzerland. Prof. Sibanda was proposed by…
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Under the shade of an awning, Rosine Bekoin leans over a fire, stirring a pan of roasting cacao beans — the main raw ingredient of chocolate. A rich, fruity scent rises into the air. Around her, 10 other women sing as they pound roasted…
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Did you know most of the world's chocolate comes from the Ivory Coast and Ghana? The oldest chocolate maker, Switzerland, gets its cocoa beans from Ghana. Yet, Ghana doesn't readily produce its own chocolate. What's more, is Ghana then…
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Female cocoa farmers are averagely is paid as little as 23p a day, highlighting a gender pay gap in the global chocolate industry, according to Fairtrade. That figure is well below the extreme global poverty line of £1.40 a day, and…
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Yaw Nkansah took over three acres of the cocoa plantation when his father died five years ago. He was 25 and a junior high school leaver. Now 30, he has the frame and looks of a man resigned to a hard life. He hates and loves in equal…
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