{"id":5038,"date":"2024-05-01T05:32:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T03:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=5038"},"modified":"2024-05-01T05:32:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T03:32:28","slug":"nestle-program-to-increase-income-of-bean-farmers-in-africa-leaves-workers-below-living-wage-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=5038","title":{"rendered":"Nestle program to increase income of bean farmers in Africa leaves workers below living wage, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Swiss food giant has enrolled 11,000 farming households in the leading agricultural region of Cote d&#8217;Ivoire in a program that pays farmers $535 in bonuses, and is expanding the program to neighboring Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those in the program still earn almost $3,000 a year below the amount of just over $7,500 that\u2019s needed to live a decent life \u2014 a gap highlighting a systemic challenge for the cocoa industry,&#8221; media said.<\/p>\n<p>For cocoa producers not participating in the program, the difference was reported to be nearly $4,000.<\/p>\n<p>A legacy of low farm wages is preventing West African producers from investing in plantations, making it harder to cope with extreme weather and crop disease, and risking a supply crisis like the one that sent prices soaring to record highs this year, media said.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swiss food giant has enrolled 11,000 farming households in the leading agricultural region of Cote d&#8217;Ivoire in a program that pays farmers $535 in bonuses, and is expanding the program to neighboring Ghana. &#8220;Those in the program still earn almost $3,000 a year below the amount of just over $7,500 that\u2019s needed to live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}