LOW INCOME, THE MAJOR CHALLENGE OF GHANAIAN COCOA FARMERS, NOT THEIR DEMOGRAPHICS
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In my previous article on “how much Cocoa Farmers earn and why we need to announce a #Cocoaemergency”, we realised that household members of cocoa farmers individually lived on a daily income as low as US$0.17 / day when cultivating a two-hectare cocoa farm. This low-income fact has been ignored for a long to the extent that we use other demographic and psychographic factors like age, education, culture, etc. to factualise the reasons why farmers engage in certain unproductive activities to sustain their living. This article would be demonstrating how the low-income situation of smallholder cocoa farmers has influenced and continue to influence their reliance on old cocoa technology, rainfall for irrigation and what the west/academia regretfully defines as forced labour.
LOW INCOME, THE MAJOR CHALLENGE OF GHANAIAN COCOA FARMERS, NOT THEIR DEMOGRAPHICS
LOW INCOME, THE MAJOR CHALLENGE OF GHANAIAN…
LOW INCOME, THE MAJOR CHALLENGE OF GHANAIAN COCOA FARMERS, NOT THEIR DEMOGRAPHICS
In my previous article on “how much Cocoa Farmers earn and why we need to announce a #Cocoaemergency”, we realised that household members of cocoa farmers individually lived on a daily income as low as US$0.17 / day when cultivating a two-hectare cocoa farm. This low-income fact has been ignored for a long to the extent that we use other demographic and psychographic factors like age, education, culture, etc. to factualise the reasons why farmers engage in certain unproductive activities to sustain their living. This article would be demonstrating how the low-income situation of smallholder cocoa farmers has influenced and continue to influence their reliance on old cocoa technology, rainfall for irrigation and what the west/academia regretfully defines as forced labour.