Tom Collins

Ivory Coast’s Crackdown on Child Labor Clashes With the Realities of Cocoa Farming

There are an estimated 800,000 child laborers in Ivory Coast’s cocoa industry, the majority of whom work on small plantations. For many years, the focus has been on the abuse of children in industrial cocoa production, turning a blind eye to those at the smallholder level who have also suffered many abuses.