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Child labour probed in Ivory Coast's cocoa fields
- The world's biggest food company, Nestle SA, says it will work with a non-profit group to investigate child labour on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast that supply its factories.
- Little has changed in the decade since the Swiss company and other major chocolate makers signed a U.S.-brokered international agreement in September 2001 to rid their supply chains of child labourers.
- The results will be made public in spring 2012.
- The U.S. government-backed report by Tulane University, published in March, found that more than 1.8 million children in West Africa were involved in growing cocoa.
