, it seems as if progress is well under way. In reality, though, industry watchdogs agree that little headway has been made on the path to a fair and sustainable cocoa sector.recent Cocoa Barometer reportof NGOs and trade unions working on sustainability in cocoa, deforestation continues at an alarming rate in Ghana and Ivory Coast. Child labor is, perhaps even more so than when it was first uncovered two decades ago.
For Bill Guyton, a founder and former president of the World Cocoa Foundation who now works as a senior adviser to the Fine Chocolate Industry Association, the cause of that persistent poverty is hardly mysterious. The price of cocoa today on the New York Mercantile Exchange is $2,400 a metric ton; it fluctuates a great deal, but the average price of cocoa has been $2,400 a ton for five decades. While chocolate bars have gotten more expensive, cocoa farmers have continued to be paid the same.
“In mainstream chocolate, you have a whole system set up that doesn’t want to change,” Guyton said. “You’ve got governments and large companies involved, and making changes to that system would require a new way of trading, and a new way of compensating farmers.”
Answer: Who cares, its chocolate. Ild still eat it if it was still being picked and made by black slaves. Would society give up coffee or tea if it went back to being picked by slaves? Doubt it. Your get some woke reporting, hippies making some noise, but ppl would still consume.