An estimated 1.56 million children are in child labour in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. That's 45% of children living in cocoa-growing households. Nearly all these children work on family cocoa farms, alongside their parents and other relatives. Child labour is a complex issue. The vast majority of cocoa in West Africa is grown by smallholder.. The occurrence of child labor on cocoa plantations is also the result of lacking access to (quality) education, infrastructure, local norms and values, or 'ignorance' as referred to in various interviews with industry stakeholders.. These things also would take children to child labor or increase the risk of child labor.' (industry.

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Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, together, produce nearly 60% of the world's cocoa each year, but the latest estimates found that 1.56 million children are engaged in child labor on cocoa farms in these two countries. ILAB's work has been essential to confronting the challenge of child labor in West African cocoa. By fostering partnerships and.. Child labor among agricultural households in cocoa-growing areas of Ivory Coast and Ghana, the two primary suppliers, increased from 31 percent to 45 percent between 2008 and 2019, according to.