Social Sustainability in Agriculture: An Anthropological Perspective on Child Labour in Cocoa Production in Ghana |
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Authors: | Amanda Berlan |
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Institution: | 1. Coventry Business School , Coventry University , Coventry , UK amanda.berlan@coventry.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | Based on historical sources and ethnographic fieldwork in Ghana, the article presents child labour in cocoa communities as the outcome of a complex myriad of micro-level factors. It argues that many policy initiatives to address this problem have been hindered by a lack of understanding of the social and historical context impacting child rights in cocoa-producing communities. It also argues that by enabling a more grounded and gender-sensitive understanding of the household dimension of poor labour practices and of the plurality of factors underlying them, ethnography makes an important contribution to debates on unfree labour. |
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