19-Feb-2019 Last updated on 19-Aug-2020 at 08:16 GMT
In a blog post last year for the World Cocoa Foundation, Tim McCoy, the organization’s vice president for country relations, wrote about how child labor in the cocoa sector is ‘both a symptom and contributing factor to poverty’
He said it is still a work in progress and the theme was picked up at the WCF’s partnership meeting in São Paulo in October when he chaired a session: The Well-Being of Children and Youth in Cocoa-Growing Communities
Included on the panel was Nick Weatherill, executive director of the International Cocoa Initiative, who published a report on child labor last year; and Taco Terheijden, Cargill’s head of sustainability, whom I interviewed for this podcast after the session ended.
In his opening remarks, McCoy said estimates to tackle child labor in the cocoa sector would cost at least half a billion dollars to help children in the 15-17 age group.
Terheijden asked the audience a simple question: ‘What can we do as an actor in the cocoa supply chain?’ He said one of the most important points is for cocoa suppliers to raise awareness and interact with the families of farmers.
The use of data to help look at the relation between child labor and product of farm was crucial, and working with partners such as ICI, who play a crucial for collating data, was proof that suppliers are better off working together, Terhijden told delegates.
He said Cargill was committed to sharing its information with governments and NGOs.
Cargill has huge presence in the agriculture sector in Brazil and he spoke about Cargill’s support for Childhood Brazil, an NGO child protection program to prevent abuse of children in the country’s general supply chain.
To hear more on this and Cargill’s Cocoa Promise, listen to our podcast above.
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Maria (Mary) Feddema passed away January 2023
Mary was born in November,1930 in the village of Terheijden
province of North Brabant in the Netherlands
along with six brothers raised in the village of Langeweg
She learned how to work in the family dairy alongside her sisters
while her brothers left the farm to get their education
She emigrated to Canada in 1951 bringing her bicycle with her
thinking that it would be her transportation
while she was working at the Westlock Hospital
They were married in December of 1952 in Sundre
Their marriage began its journey in a home that Joe built on land he purchased at James River
They began with a mixed farm concentrating on chickens and then later added the dairy
others growing and producing feed for the cows
Mary was a dedicated Catholic and was always faithfully in her pew at service time
After all the Feddema children had finished high school
graduating with a high school equivalency diploma in 1988
selling their cows and quota and moved 1 half a mile north to another quarter
providing companionship to their quieter lifestyle
and graduating to the new Sundre Lodge in 2016
she became a long-term care patient in the Sundre Hospital where a very dedicated team kept her comfortable until her passing
In 1991 Mary created the Sundre Farmers Market and managed it for ten years
she met many folks that forged lasting relationships
and daughter Sherry also sister Rita and brother John
She was predeceased by four sons and three daughters
She was grandmother to sixteen grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren
A CELEBRATION OF MARY'S LIFE WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE FEDDEMA FARM SATURDAY AUGUST 26TH
west of Bowden and 3 miles east of the James River Store
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