Fair Trade Chocolate

Food from the gods is called the cocoa tree (botanically called Theobroma Cacao) in language of Central America’s natives. The tree is indigenous to the rain forests of the Americas and originally domesticated in Central America. It is a special sort of tree that can only grow in the band around 20 degrees north [...]

Two-thirds of the world’s cocoa is produced in Western Africa, from that around 43% sourced from Côte d’Ivoire. World Cocoa Foundation reports that around 50 million people depend on cocoa as a main source of their income. Every day many children toil in abusive labor conditions in West Africa’s cocoa fields. Iindividual cocoa farmers [...]