Cocoa, Chocolate & Poverty

Would the exogenous variable ＂price＂ alone be sufficient to improve the farmer’s income? Despite the evidence, African producing countries (Côte d’Ivoire & Ghana in the lead) persist in arguing for a ＂decent income differential＂, which in practice is disappointing.In this debate, the EU seems to misjudge its own atavistic mistakes, insisting on a misleading legal corpus and avoiding the foundations. Peripheral issues such as ＂certification＂ or ＂fighting deforestation＂ are often privileged, as in the US, with the approach of Senators Wyden and Brown to protect children.This book sheds light on certain faults, by questioning the ＂Cocoa-Chocolate＂ relationship, a major reason for the poverty of the farmer, the ecological disaster observed, and various perverse effects, alibis of the activism around the cocoa bean. Pleading the causes of productivity and local processing, as well as that of African outlets for cocoa, he focuses on the inconsistency of the status of the land used to cultivate it.The main cause pleaded aims at making the cocoa farmer the first actor of the grinding, ideally at the farm, like the wine grower with his harvest at the castle.