Swiss Chocolate Makers Focus On Farmers’ income To End Child Labour
Swiss chocolate makers Barry Callebaut and Lindt & Sprüngli said improving cocoa farmers’ income was crucial to ending child labour in the cocoa supply chain.
An estimated 1.56 million children work in cocoa production in West Africa and chocolate makers, under pressure from consumers and investors, are finding it tough to tackle.
Barry Callebaut has vowed to eradicate child labour from its supply chain by 2025, which Boone said was an important target to show that the company was tackling the challenge.
Barry Callebaut found just over 21,000 cases of child labour in its supply chain in its financial year to August and uses remediation to resolve them.
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