Côte d’Ivoire is the world’s largest producer of chocolate. Côte d’Ivoire’s main income comes from chocolate, which accounts for 31% of its revenue. Côte d’Ivoire’s role in the global chocolate industry is significant because it produces and trades them to resellers and big corporations. But in my opinion, chocolate is not good for Côte d’Ivoire. Chocolate is not a good source of revenue due to the social conditions of Côte d’Ivoire. Document E states, “Some children end up on the cocoa farms because they need work and traffickers tell them the job pays well. Other children are “sold” to traffickers or farm owners by their own relatives.” This illustrates that children are working on farms due to child labor and are being sold off to human …show more content…
This shows the evident cruelty and harsh working environments in the chocolate industry. Another example comes from Document F stating that, “Cocoa growers are typically illiterate subsistence farmers who grow cacao alongside staple food crops to provide a main cash income to pay for school fees, medical bills, and other household necessities. The communities have poor education and healthcare services and lack electricity and decent sanitation and water is only available from communal wells.” This evidence clearly shows that even if they produce all this chocolate and it's their main source of income, they receive little to no pay. They have horrible health care insurance and their water source is non-existent except from communal wells. This is one of the many key reasons chocolate is not good for Côte d’Ivoire. Another reason why chocolate is not beneficial to Côte d'Ivoire is because of its environmental conditions. For example, in Doc D it states, “All this deforestation, combined with hunting that accompanies it, has a devastating impact on Ivory Coast’s primates. Five of the surveyed protected areas were found to have lost half of their primate species.” This portrays that all their agricultural