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Timothy S. McCoy, World Cocoa Foundation. Presented at the 2017 conference
Smallholder cocoa farmers inWest Africa often subsist on incomes that place them below the poverty line, which in turn exacerbates other development issues, such as literacy, low school attendance rates, child labor and genderinequality.In launching the CocoaAction strategy,leading chocolate and cocoa companies recognized that their individual commitments cannot solve the complex and systemic nature of these challenges.
