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This review, carried out by the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), evaluates 43 quantitative studies and 136 qualitative studies on certification schemes designed to make agricultural production socially sustainable.

Recent declines in world cocoa prices are likely to place additional pressure on already financially-constrained smallholder cocoa farmers in West Africa if they result in sustained lower farm-gate prices paid to farmers. Several studies indicate that the majority of cocoa farmers live in extreme poverty, earning a per capita daily cocoa income of between $0.40-1.60. Any further lowering of farmer incomes as a result of declining cocoa prices could exacerbate the risk of child labour for a number of reasons.

ICI reviews the changes to Côte d'Ivoire's hazardous work list.

In June 2017, the Minister of Employment and Social Protection of Côte d'Ivoire published an order determining the list of work allowed for children aged 13 to 16:

In June 2017 the Ministry of Employment and Social Protection of Côte d'Ivoire published an order determining the list of dangerous work prohibited to children.