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This major study by the Royal Tropical Institute aims to contribute to the cocoa sector’s body of knowledge and provide a solid evidence base to test common assumptions and beliefs.

The Living Income Community of Practice, co-hosted by GIZ, ISEAL and the Sustainable Food Lab and the GIZ Programme “Sustainable Supply Chains and Standards” are currently calculating ‘Living Income’ Benchmarks for the cocoa-producing regions in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.

Produced by the Understanding Children's Work Programme and using data from the Ghana Living Standards Survey Round 6, this report is designed to provide a detailed picture of child labour in Ghana, both within and outside the cocoa sector.

This report, produced by the International Labour Organization, describes the scale and key characteristics of child labour throughout the world. While child labour has decreased globally since 2000, the rate of progress is insufficient to meet target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals, child labour elimination by 2025. 152 million children remain in child labour and significant progress is needed in Africa, where child labour rates are the highest.

Researchers from Tulane University conducted a study to assess the prevalence of, and measure changes in, estimates of children working in child labour, and in the worst forms of child labour (WFCL) in the production of cocoa in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana.