A Ferrero, fabricante italiana de chocolates finos, se comprometeu a erradicar a escravidão das fazendas onde adquire amêndoas de cacau, até 2020. A empresa, que produz chocolates Ferrero Rocher e Nutella e ovos Kinder, segue a Nestlé e a Hershey na adoção de uma política anti-escravidão e de exploração de mão de obra, muito comum na África.
A direção da Ferrero garante que vai erradicar o trabalho infantil e o trabalho forçado de adultos a partir de plantações de cacau que utiliza até 2020. Além disso, vai relatório mais detalhado sobre suas ações na cadeia produtiva. Cerca de 75% dos grãos de cacau do mundo são cultivados em pequenas propriedades agrícolas na África Ocidental. Na Costa do Marfim, existem cerca de 200 mil crianças que trabalham na lavoura, muitas contra a sua vontade, para criar o chocolate apreciado em todo o mundo. A maioria desses trabalhadores mirins não sabem nem mesmo o que é chocolate.
Em janeiro deste ano,, a CNN destacou a situação do trabalho infantil na Costa do Marfim em um documentário, "Escravos do chocolate para crianças”, pelo correspondente David McKenzie. (com informações da CNN).
My name is Joana Fernandes. I'm doing a master degree in history, international relations and cooperation, at Universidade do Porto, in Portugal.
ResponderExcluirQuestions associated with children labor and human rights have always been within my interests. Maybe for this reason, I started to gather information about Nestlé, within the framework of Social Responsibility, and presently I’m developing a thesis about the policies they (Nestlé) implemented in Ivory Coast’s cocoa plantations, in order to know the actual impact such policies have in local communities.
Most studies about social responsibilities from the enterprises focus largely on the action of enterprises, and not so much on the results they achieve in the communities. The way they actually live is often forgotten, as you certainly know way better than myself.
Would it, still, be possible for you to answer these short questions I write bellow?
- How do you see Nestlé’s Social Responsibility policies in Ivory Coast’s cocoa plantations?
- Does it seem important to you that enterprises such as Nestlé have implemented Social Responsibility programs to approach social problems in the communities?
- Do you think such policies/programs actually work?
- When you were in the fields did you notice if enterprises worried about questioning the people directly in order to know about their real needs?
- Which social problems seemed more relevant to approach and are in more urgent need of solution?
- Do Nestlé’s social responsibility measures seem enough to stop/slow down human traffic and children labor in cocoa plantation?
- How do you see, generally, the question of children labor?
Once again it would be very much appreciated if you could answer such questions. Thank you very much in advance for you time! Keep up the good work.
My best regards,
Joana Fernandes