Chocolate nations
Subtitle: living and dying for cocoa in West Africa
By: Órla Ryan
Series: African arguments; African arguments
Publisher: Zed; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781848130050; 9781848130043; 9781848135406
Subjects: Cocoa trade; Economic conditions; Cacao growers; Chocolate
Description: From the thousands of children who work on plantations to the smallholders who harvest the beans, Chocolate Nations reveals the hard economic realities of our favourite sweet. This vivid and gripping exploration of the reasons behind farmer poverty includes the human stories of the producers and traders at the heart of the West African industry. Provocative and eye-opening, Chocolate Nations exposes the true story of how the treat we love makes it onto our supermarket shelves.
Notes: "In association with International African Institute, Royal African Society, Social Science Research Council."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-174) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ghana is cocoa; title: Cocoa wars; title: Child labour; title: Follow the money; title: From bean to bar; title: Fairtrade myths and reality; title: Trading games; title: Building a sustainable future.