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African cocoa fields. “It isn’t the slavery we are all familiar with and which ... care of their slaves. They can just use them up, in the cocoa fields for example, and then throw them away. Pressure for change As publicity ... based Global Exchange, “The best way to prevent child labor in the fields is to pay workers a living wage. Most people in this ...
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Chocolate
Read GX Fair Trade Director's Cocoa Op-Ed on Common Dreams Commitment to Ethical Cocoa Check-out World Fair Trade Day ... in abusive labor conditions in West Africa’s cocoa fields Cocoa companies pay prices so low that many cocoa farmers cannot meet their families’ basic ... our communities, together we WILL end child slavery in the cocoa fields. Links How/Where to Buy Fair Trade Chocolate News Updates ...
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News Updates
According to Global Exchange cocoa farms are home to widespread child ... West African cocoa fields lies as much, or more, with ensuring that farmers are paid a fair price for their cocoa. The answer, ... S. government. Among those exploited children are ones toiling in the cocoa fields. There are few chocolatiers who are picky about the sort ...
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With an estimated 284,000 children toiling in abusive labor conditions in West Africa’s cocoa fields instead of being educated in schools, consumers who choose Fair Trade chocolate can enjoy each ...
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Volunteer in Bolivia: GVI Volunteering Project to Bolivia
Coroico; a tropical town filled with colourful markets, cocoa fields, orchards and emerald-green fields. For the work, you will actually be based in the communities in which ...
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Bougainville (Do or Die)
Villagers were herded into 'Care Centres', plastic tents in market places and on football fields. Today the above figures are much higher. There are now over 40,000 people herded ... areas has been cut. There is no economy. Farmers whose life savings are invested in cocoa plots have watched crops rot on the tree. They cannot pay other villagers to help ...
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River of Words: Poetry
Eric Pierson, Age 10 Abington Friends School Jenkintown, Pennsylvania Teacher: Anne Fields Crater Lake It sounds like drumming waves It smells musty, moldy ... the thousands and launch their colorful attack on the hills and fields. Painting a rainbow on the earth. Yippy for spring. It’s ... you play in. I am the steam that rises from your hot cocoa on a cold day. Spring I am the gentle shower you dance ...
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El Salvador
El Salvador and elsewhere in the region1. Seven farmers volunteered their fields and their efforts to establish lighthouse demonstration modules, to demonstrate the viability of ... farmers are applying soil conservation techniques in their fields. Other elements applied this season are green manures and diversification with fruit crops (cocoa and pineapple). As soils are severely ...
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Emergency Management Postings
Vatomandry in Taomasina District severely hit with houses damaged and the community's agricultural fields flooded. Although the weather bureau warned residents to prepare for a moderate tropical storm, average ... agricultural loss is yet to be measured, significant damage has been caused to coconut and cocoa production in the municipality of Baracoa, which provides two thirds of the Cuba's ...
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SBN Feature Article: November 1997
Borneo was so dense that the tree-tops looked like smooth fields of grass. It rained almost every day - so moist was the forest, a fire could ... the ripening of fruits; traders and commodity associations say it is already affecting coffee and cocoa production and disrupting transportation. Fishing boats in Sarawak have been advised not to put out ...
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