A reader asked if it was true that children are involved in cocoa production for the Swiss chocolate industry. Swissinfo ...

July 7, the world celebrates the creation of a popular sweet treat. World Chocolate Day is a holiday that has been introduced ...

Chocolate comes from the cacao tree, which grows in warm, rainy places like Central and South America, Africa, and parts of ...

“As you guys know, we do a lot to ethically source our cacao, from paying our farmers a ‘Living Income Reference Price,’ using 100% Fairtrade certified beans and we audit and remediate child labor on ...

A fresh industry study has forecast the global cocoa bean market to expand towards a total of $20.8 billion by 2032, growing annually at 4.9% and up from a figure of $13.5 billion two years ago, ...

Chocolate is a beloved foodstuff with a nigh incalculable number of beans produced around the world each year. But only one country can produce the most.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has called for increased efforts to end child labour, especially in sectors such as cocoa farming and artisanal mining in the country.

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 ...

A shortage of cocoa beans has led to a near shutdown of processing plants in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, the two countries responsible for 60% of global production. With chocolate makers around the ...

American TV channel, CBS News, has uncovered appalling child labour conditions in the remote cocoa-growing regions of Ghana. The report broadcasted last November, said young Ghanaian children, aged ...

Mars, the candy company known for popular brand names such as M&Ms and Snickers, allegedly uses cocoa that is harvested by children as young as five.

Eliminating child labor, particularly within the cocoa production sector, stands as an imperious necessity, demanding the synthesis of technology, policy, and socio-economic reform.