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17 August 2012
Cocoa buyers will face extra responsibility for monitoring their supply chains following a worldwide move to stamp out child labour, an ethical trading specialist has warned.
Eight international trade bodies have signed an agreement aimed at ending child labour in cocoa cultivation and processing in west Africa, where more than half the world’s crop is grown.
A joint foundation will be set up in July to identify cocoa used in chocolate production that is grown without child labour.
The International Institute for Tropical...