Chocolate Nations Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa

Name: Chocolate Nations Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa
Price: 5.43 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781780323091

ISBN-10: 1780323093

ISBN-13: 9781780323091

Edition: 2nd 2012 (Revised)

Authors: ï¿½rla Ryan

List price: $11.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $17.49

Marketplace

5 new & used from $5.43

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

FROM BEAN TO BAR - WHERE DOES YOUR CHOCOLATE COME FROM?Chocolate - the very word conjures up a hint of the forbidden and a taste of the decadent. Yet the story behind the chocolate bar is rarely one of luxury...From the thousands of children who work on plantations to the smallholders who harvest the beans,Chocolate Nationsreveals the hard economic realities of our favorite 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. Orla Ryan shows that only a tiny fraction of the cash we pay for a chocolate bar actually makes it back to the farmers, and sheds light on what…

Book details

List price: $11.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 4/12/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.06" wide x 7.81" long x 0.41" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Orla Ryan works for the Financial Times in London. She lived in Africa for more than four years, first in Uganda, and then in Ghana, where she worked for Reuters.



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Ghana is cocoa



Cocoa wars



Child labour



Follow the money



Prom bean to bar



Fairtrade myths and reality



Trading games



Building a sustainable future


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index