Seven years after the industry agreed to abolish child labor, little progress has been made. Seventy percent of the world's cocoa beans are grown in West Africa, where working and living ...

The end result is an inhumane system in which farmers rely on child labor to harvest cocoa beans – a system that is fueled by traffickers who transport children to cocoa-growing regions across ...

Mars, the chocolate giant that makes M&Ms and Snickers, uses cocoa that is harvested by children as young as five years old in Ghana, according to a bombshell report. An unidentified whistleblower ...

A U.S. Department of Labor-sponsored study in 2013 found that 2.1 million children were engaged in child labor in the Ivory Coast and Ghana — a 21percent increase over the 1.75 million ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government and the chocolate industry pledged $17 million on Monday to help end child labor — some of it forced and ... isn't made from cocoa beans harvested and ...

Backed by the Labor Department, who hoped to monitor progress on Harkin-Engel, Bertrand co-authored two studies during the 2008 and 2013 growing seasons on child labor in cocoa production in Ghana ...

WASHINGTON - Taking a little sweetness out of Valentine's Day, a consumer group says child labor and pesticides may be ingredients in those chocolates and flower bouquets. The Organic Consumers ...

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.

VEVEY, SWITZERLAND — Nestle SA will pay cash incentives directly to cocoa-farming households for certain activities, including enrolling children in school, under a new plan announced Jan. 27 ...

Fake Chocolate Sidesteps Cocoa’s Biggest Problems. ... though, is linked to widespread deforestation and child labor, ... when beans are piled under banana leaves and left for several days.

Longer-term supermarket contracts for cocoa ‘can help tackle child labour’ Yeyasso farming co-operative in Ivory Coast is trialling a new supply chain initiative that aims to increase the ...