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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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Many roles in family businesses are still assigned on the basis of gender in South America: it is believed that women are not strong enough to work the land, or are ill-suited for finance, negotiation or decision making. Instead, they are…
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Did you ever wonder who grows the cocoa beans used to make your chocolate? Six million farmers around the world bring you this sweet crop. It was a sacred Aztec beverage. Its melting point, just below body temperature, seems to…
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The Chief Executive of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has officially handed over an ultra-modern solar-powered irrigation system to a cocoa farmer. The system has been installed on a 30-acre cocoa farm owned by…
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The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has charged cocoa farmers to be business minded in operating their farms and to partake fully in the various programmes introduced by COCOBOD to ensure…
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