CocoaAction: Aligning an Industry around Shared Commitments and Objectives

摘要

Smallholder cocoa farmers in West Africa often subsist on incomes that place them below the poverty line, which in turn exacerbates other development issues, such as literacy, low school attendance rates, child labor and gender inequality. In launching the CocoaAction strategy, leading chocolate and cocoa companies recognized that their individual commitments cannot solve the complex and systemic nature of these challenges.