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Children’s Work in West African Cocoa Production: Drivers, Contestations and Critical Reflections

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dc.creator Thorsen, Dorte
dc.creator Maconachie, Roy
dc.date 2021-04-26T08:28:32Z
dc.date 2021-04-26T08:28:32Z
dc.date 2021-04-26
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-26T08:45:09Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-26T08:45:09Z
dc.identifier Thorsen, D. and Maconachie, R. (2021) Children’s Work in West African Cocoa Production: Drivers, Contestations and Critical Reflections, ACHA Working Paper 10, Brighton: Action on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture, IDS, DOI: 10.19088/ACHA.2021.005
dc.identifier 978-1-78118-767-8
dc.identifier https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16560
dc.identifier Rural Futures
dc.identifier 10.19088/ACHA.2021.005
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/198388
dc.description Cocoa farming in West Africa has a long history of relying on family labour, including children’s labour. Increasingly, global concern is voiced about the hazardous nature of children’s work, without considering how it contributes to their social development. Using recent research, this paper maps out the tasks undertaken by boys and girls of different ages in Ghana and how their involvement in work considered hazardous has changed. We show that actions to decrease potential harm are increasingly difficult and identify new areas of inquiry.
dc.description Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
dc.language en
dc.publisher Institute of Development Studies
dc.relation ACHA Working Paper;10
dc.rights This is an Open Access paper distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited and any modifications or adaptations are indicated.
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.rights Institute of Development Studies
dc.subject Agriculture
dc.subject Children and Youth
dc.subject Work and Labour
dc.title Children’s Work in West African Cocoa Production: Drivers, Contestations and Critical Reflections
dc.type Series paper (non-IDS)
dc.coverage Ghana


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