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Fairtrade and child labour in Ghana's cocoa sector : challenges, gaps and recommendations
1 online resource (vii, 5 pages)Includes abstract and appendices.Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-72).In spite of the numerous interventions put in place by the Government of Ghana,
international development agencies and other relevant bodies such as Fairtrade to
eradicate child labour in Ghana’s cocoa sector, it continues to be a significant problem in
cocoa production. This research paper aims to explore the main reasons for the persistent
occurrences of child labour in cocoa and the role of Fairtrade in ensuring the eradication
of child labour in Ghana’s cocoa sector. The research identifies explicitly various causes
of child labour in Ghana’s cocoa by reviewing relevant academic and grey literature in
the area. It provides a critical assessment of the role of Fairtrade in eradicating child
labour. The research paper also relied on data from fifteen (15) key informant interview
respondents comprising five (5) officials from Fairtrade West Africa and International
Cocoa Initiative, and ten (10) Fairtrade certified cocoa farmers from three selected cocoa
growing areas in the Western, Eastern and Brong Ahafo Regions of Ghana. The paper
concludes that poverty, the lack of awareness among cocoa farmers and cocoa-growing
communities about child labour policies, inadequate educational infrastructure in cocoa growing communities, and other socio-cultural factors are the leading causes of child
labour in Ghana’s cocoa sector. It examines how Fairtrade interventions, namely
technical training and support for farmers, provision of educational infrastructure in
cocoa-growing areas, and the sensitization of farmers and community members about
child labour policies, are helping fight child labour in Ghana’s cocoa sector. It concludes
by recommending an increase in Fairtrade premiums and prices, technical training and
support for cocoa farmers, educational infrastructure and scholarships in cocoa-growing
areas and the sensitization of cocoa farmers and communities
Fractal Topology Foundations
In this paper, we introduce the foundation of a fractal topological space
constructed via a family of nested topological spaces endowed with subspace
topologies, where the number of topological spaces involved in this family is
related to the appearance of new structures on it. The greater the number of
topological spaces we use, the stronger the subspace topologies we obtain. The
fractal manifold model is brought up as an illustration of space that is
locally homeomorphic to the fractal topological space.Comment: 20 page