{"id":3459,"date":"2019-06-28T11:45:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T11:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3459"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:22","slug":"ivory-coast-and-ghana-team-up-for-greater-share-of-chocolate-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/28\/ivory-coast-and-ghana-team-up-for-greater-share-of-chocolate-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast and Ghana team up for greater share of chocolate wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Ange Aboa,&nbsp;Joe Bavier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\nmonth, Ivory Coast and Ghana &#8211; the world\u2019s top two cocoa producers &#8211; teamed up\nto impose a minimum floor price that chocolate companies must pay if they want\nto access their more than 60% share of global supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;It\u2019s\nan attempt to ease pervasive farmer poverty that has become a blight on\nchocolate\u2019s image and a threat to the sector\u2019s future in West Africa, as young\npeople walk away from a life of backbreaking labour with little reward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cocoa Barometer, a biannual report published by\ncivil society groups, calculates that farmers receive just 6.6% of the sale\nprice for a bar of chocolate.\n\nAnd last year a Fairtrade International survey found that just 12% of\nIvorian cocoa-farming households earned $2.50 per person per day, a level it\ncalculated to be the living income benchmark\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/investingNews\/idAFKCN1TT0TE-OZABS\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ange Aboa,&nbsp;Joe Bavier This month, Ivory Coast and Ghana &#8211; the world\u2019s top two cocoa producers &#8211; teamed up to impose a minimum floor price that chocolate companies must&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}