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Chocolate - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Displacing other native plants that help the ecosystem
  - - - Methane Emissions
        
        Contributing to Climate Crisis
  - - - Ivory Coast is the world's cacao producer-lost 80% of forests in last 50 years.
  - - - Growing and processing chocolate takes a lot of water. 450 gallons for a 3.5 oz chocolate bar :
      - Environmental Impacts of Additives to Chocolate (Dairy, Sugar, Soy, Palm Oil) #
  - - - Less Child Labor
        
        More Children Can Attend Schools
    - - Less consumers due to price?
- - - - Some children work on cacao farms because they need to work and traffickers tell them the job pays well.
      - Other children sold to traffickers or farm owners by their own relatives.
- - - - Most Children 12-16 old, some young as 5
        
        Work between a few months- others through adulthood
      - Very Dangerous Work
        
        Beaten/Whipped if not working fast enough
        
        Exposed to Agricultural Chemicals on Cacao Farms #
        
        To deal with Insect Populations #
        
        Children as young as 10, spray the pods with toxins without wearing protective clothing.
        
        Health Repercussions
        
        Hospital Infrastructure available to help?
        
        Chainsaws to clear forests
        
        Climb Cacao Trees to cut bean pods
        
        Use a machete (open pods/causes many scars from machetes
        
        Carry sacks of 100lbs through the forest
        
        Violates International Labor Laws & UN Convention on eliminating the worst forms of child labor.
      - 10% of child labor in Ghana & 40% in Ivory Coast do not attend school.
        
        40% of the Children are Girls
        
        See "Half the Sky" repercussions of girls without education.
    - - Low Wages to Keep Farmers in Poverty
        
        Often leads to farmers needing to cut down trees and use their children to help with the crop # #
      - Earn Less than $2/day (below poverty line)
        
        As a result, uses child labor to keep prices competitive. # #
- - - - Colonization
      - Gave it a new name and turned it into an object of international trade and societal passion= Chocol-atl
        
        As love for it spread to Europe, sugar was added as was butter and/or milk. # #
        
        As demand increased, so did slave labor to grow the cacao.
- - - - Money invested in farm
        
        Gov't Subsidies
      - Job Skills for Different Industry?
    - - Gov't Policies
        
        Lobbying Efforts
        
        Food Labeling
        
        What children eat at school
        
        “Checkoff Programs” to promote milk and dairy