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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Rebecca Speare-Cole

Fairer chocolate trade ‘transforming mothers’ lives in Ivorian cocoa villages’

Mothers sit in the recently-build maternity clinic in the village of Podiagouime, Ivory Coast (Chris Terry/Fairtrade/PA) -

Mothers in impoverished Ivory Coast cocoa communities say fairer prices and contracts are helping to transform their lives and support their children.

The west African nation is the biggest producer of cocoa in the world, with farmers in the region of Tonkpi supplying chocolate global markets, including the UK.

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