|
A worker carries a cocoa bag at a warehouse in Dabisso June 18, 2014. Last season, after a brief 2011 civil conflict ended years of political turmoil, its new President Alassane Ouattara ushered in reforms that established a single marketing board, the Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC), to manage the sector. It abandoned a system of spot sales and auctioned off the bulk of its crop in advance in order to set a guaranteed minimum price for farmers. In a single season it succeeded in stamping out a decade-long trafficking epidemic that saw a peak of around 200,000 tons of cocoa lost to smugglers in the 2010/11 season. (Photo by Thierry Gouegnon/Reuters)
|
