Cocoa Quiz

Question 1

What was funded by Cocoa

Answer 1

• education
  -houses are built with cocoa
  -foundations of roads
  -schools
  -hospitals
  -government runs on cocoa

Question 2

What do their policies focus on

Answer 2

-policies focus on sustaining cocoa

Question 3

What did industry leaders like Nestle, Mars,
and Hershey vowed to, about two decades ago

Answer 3

to improve their cocoa supply chains in West Africa, where most of the world’s
cocoa originates.

Question 4

What goal was at the top of their list

Answer 4

child labor so the roughly two million children working on cocoa farms could instead be in school.

Question 5

What are other more recent objectives

Answer 5

halting deforestation, teaching farmers better growing practices, and
improving life in cocoa communities.

Question 6

What do chocolate companies still struggle with

Answer 6

still struggle to trace their supply chains back to the individual farms that produced the beans they purchase.

Question 7

what is hard to know without traceability

Answer 7

it is hard to know if child labor was used or
not.

Question 8

what does Extreme poverty in cocoa producing nations generates

Answer 8

endemic challenges that are
not easily overcome.

Question 9

What is the crux of the problem

Answer 9

too many West Africans depend on cocoa for their livelihood, and too few global consumers are willing to pay more for their chocolate.

Question 10

how much does the global chocolate industry generate in sales

Answer 10

$107 billion a year with strong growth
forecast for the next five years.

Question 11

what are some of the major players

Answer 11

Nestle, Mars, Hershey, Mondelez, and Godiva,

Question 12

What do chocolate companies rely on

Answer 12

a steady supply of
cocoa grown mainly in developing countries

Question 13

How much of the worlds cocoa comes from west Africa

Answer 13

60%

Question 14

How many cocoa farms are in west Africa

Answer 14

2 million with most grown in Ivory Coast and Ghana

Question 15

Who holds the biggest share of cocoa in west Africa

Answer 15

Ivory Coast with 30%, cocoa is its largest export

Question 16

What largest export is cocoa in Ghana

Answer 16

Third largest, following gold and crude oil

Question 17

In West Africa, how many farmers and their families grow cocoa trees in fields and dry
the beans after harvest

Answer 17

about two million farmers

Question 18

According to U.S. Labor Department about how many children are employed in West African cocoa
farms,

Answer 18

two million children

Question 19

Where do bosses traffic children from

Answer 19

Burkina Faso

Question 20

how many children from Burkina Faso are in Ivory Coast

Answer 20

16,000

Question 21

An open border agreement between Ivory Coast and neighboring countries resulted in what?

Answer 21

as many as 1.3 million
people from Burkina Faso and 360,000 from Mali crossing over to a country

Question 22

How much are bosses paid

Answer 22

paid around nine dollars a week per child employed by an Ivorian farmer

Question 23

how young are these children

Answer 23

as young as ten or eleven

Question 24

no record exists for how many children born in Burkina Faso

Answer 24

40%

Question 25

What did the new policy in July 2019 allow by the governments of Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso

Answer 25

return children coming into the country unaccompanied to work on cocoa farms.

Question 26

What did certification groups assists with

Answer 26

They aimed to show
that farms were not on nationally protected forests, child labor was not being used, and safe and
sanitary programs existed for farm workers

Question 27

how much of cocoa supply was certified by the end of 2018 by companies

Answer 27

Mars-half of its cocoa
-Hershey 80%
-Nestle 46% globally and 80% among Ivory Coast farmers

Question 28

How much of the cocoa produced in Ivory Coast can be traced to the farms from which it came from ?

Answer 28

less than 25%

Question 29

how far are West African cocoa farms are spread

Answer 29

100,000 square miles of territory

Question 30

how much do Utz or Fairtrade typically sample

Answer 30

10% of farms in any given group seeking certification

Question 31

How many co-ops are they and how many are inspected

Answer 31

a co-op may consist of 1,000
small farmers, yet fewer than 100 will be inspected.

Question 32

How much more can farmers get if certifies

Answer 32

$80 more per metric ton sold.

Question 33

what happens if If people cannot read or write?

Answer 33

make just 70 cents a day, and we come with 35 pages of requirement that they must meet

Question 34

how does certification mislead people

Answer 34

to believe that farmers earn a living wage, their children go to school, and labor conditions
are decent.

Question 35

What is the small West
African farmer’s cocoa income

Answer 35

$1,900 to $2,000 a year

Question 36

What percent of farmers live on less than 3 dollars a day?

Answer 36

80%

Question 37

How much does a typical farmer earn a day?

Answer 37

$0.78 per day from cocoa farming, about
enough to purchase one Kit Kat bar

Question 38

What are the biggest expenses for farmers?

Answer 38

Chemicals, equipment, and labor

Question 39

What are the biggest expenses for farmers?

Answer 39

Chemicals, equipment, and labor

Question 40

UNESCO cites the Ivorian literacy rate around

Answer 40

44%

Question 41

How much do farms in west africa range?

Answer 41

5 to 12 acres, and lack modern farm equipment and practices