Name:______________________
Date:_______________________
Panorama - Chocolate: The Bitter Truth
1. Which two countries in Western Africa provide the dominant amount of
the world’s chocolate?
_________________ & _____________________
2. How many chocolate bars can one cocoa pod produce? __________
3. In Ghana and Ivory Coast, more than ___million people depend on cocoa
and both governments do well taxing it and the chocolate industry
provides on both countries as they produce ____% of the world’s cocoa.
4. What is the problem that exists in Burkina Faso, the country north to both
the Ivory Coast and Ghana?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5. How do you know which kids on the cocoa farm are from Burkina Faso?
6. How much money do the trafficked children make? $____
7. Who receives the money?
8. Who sets out the global standards? ______________________________
This organization prohibits the worse forms of child labour, work likely to
harm the health, safety, or the morals of children, including kids using
hazardous tools and work interfering with education.
9. In the video we meet two children from the Ivory Coast who do not go to
school and who work with their father/brother. They provide cocoa to a
cooperative who sell their cocoa to which chocolate food giant?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10. In which condition do most of these farm workers live in? (access to
water, electricity, etc)
11. When “Paul” is unable to sell his cocoa to the first buyer due to not
having paper work, how does he sell it?
12. In the US, American policy makers were moving towards enacting a law
which would force chocolate companies to label their chocolate as child
labour free if it in fact the case. To avoid this, major chocolate companies
instead agreed, in 2001, to work with the government on the issue. 9 Years
later, what has the result been?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------13. Which foundation was created by funding from the chocolate companies
through the Harkin-Engel Protocol?
14. What is Fair Trade?
Is a system that makes sure the ___________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
______________________.There is an extra fair trade premium to allow for
extra spending in the community.
15. Where does Cadbury source its Fair Trade beans from?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------16. What does Kuapa Kokoo do when they find out that child labour is
being used by one of their suppliers?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------17. Which family members tend to sell the children to traffickers? Why do
you think this is the case?
18. Do you think we pay a fair price for our chocolate? Would you be
willing to pay more if it meant that it would end child labour?