The urgent need to develop a fair and sustainable cocoa sector
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Cocoa in Haiti.
© Valerie Baeriswyl / AFP
By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow
1 min
5 million producers in the South produce 4.5 million tonnes of cocoa.
Demand continues to increase but cocoa farmers live for the most part below the poverty line, some are forced to make their children work and this cocoa cultivation leads to massive deforestation.
France has just launched an initiative for sustainable cocoa.
Is this a good strategy?
How to sustainably intensify cocoa production?
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Guests:
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Philippe Petithuguenin,
agricultural engineer, deputy director general for research and strategy at CIRAD
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Abelle Gallo,
cocoa
farmer
in Ivory Coast and president of the NGO ID Cacao
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Laetitia-Philippe Aney
, project manager at ICCO, the International Cocoa Organization
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Kumba Maï Kone,
food technology researcher at Nangui Abrogoua University in Abidjan.
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