Cocoa Commodity Briefing
Briefing for the Fairtrade Foundation (August 2011)
Around 50 million people globally depend on cocoa for their livelihoods. This briefing offers an overview of the industry, including the main country producers, companies and the prices paid to small-scale growers. It shows that world cocoa processing and chocolate production and sales are dominated by ten companies. Cocoa growers receive only around 6 per cent of the price of chocolate paid by consumers in rich countries, compared with around 16 per cent in the late 1980s.