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Ivory Coast seeks chocolate fairness for farmers , (Video) , 2012 , CNN , English

Ivory Coast seeks chocolate fairness for farmers

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Organization: 
CNN
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Publication date: 
2012
Language: 
English
Topic: 
business development services
Keywords: 
agricultural policy, agricultural prices, child labour, commodity prices, Ivory Coast, West Africa
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On CNN's Marketplace Africa you can watch this three and half minutes video touching on issues of child labour, (un)fair pricing and policy issues with regard to the cocoa sector in Ivory coast. Price volatility, internal instability within the Ivory Coast and a lack of protection from speculators are among the reasons that an ever smaller portion of the billions of dollars of annual revenue the industry creates finds its way back to the country's farmers.