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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Partners Pledge $90 Million to Boost Incomes of Small Farmers in Africa

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Private industry joins efforts to support hundreds of thousands of cocoa, cashew farmers through improved training, access to markets The Bill cocoa...

Ivory Coast sends army to secure cocoa-growing area

http://af.reuters.com/article/burkinaFasoNews/idAFLV11517320081231

Friday, January 02, 2009

Ivory Coast has sent hundreds of soldiers to bolster security in its cocoa-growing west, but farmers caught up in simmering land disputes say that...

COTE D'IVOIRE: Farmers return to land in west after deadly clashes

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=81728

Friday, November 28, 2008

DAKAR Friday, November 28, 2008 (IRIN) - Some 70 long-displaced farmers - mostly immigrants - returned this week to a cocoa plantation in western...

COTE D'IVOIRE-GHANA: Efforts too small to curb child labour on cocoa farms

IRIN

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Despite an international outcry in 2000 over child exploitation on West African cocoa farms, and ambitious efforts by governments since then to...

Liberian Cocoa for the Global Market

GTZ

Sunday, December 16, 2007

HCCO and GTZ to promote the cocoa sector The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (German Technical...