SDG 8 and Elimination of Child Labour in the Cocoa Industry in Ghana: Can WTO Law and Private Sector Responsible Business Initiatives Help?

Ansong, Alex

doi:10.1080/08039410.2020.1786453

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“…Child labour is a tier-one issue in reports T02 and T03 and a tier-two or tier-three issue in all other reports. While eliminating child labour addresses specific points, it is connected to and has implications for several other SDGs (Ansong, 2020). The issue arises in discussions about working to eradicate child labour.…”

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Rethinking sustainability in cocoa supply chain in light of SDG disclosure

Martins,

Batalhão,

Ahokas

et al. 2023

SAMPJ

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Purpose This paper aims to assess how cocoa supply chain companies disclose sustainable development goals (SDGs) information in their sustainability reports. This assessment highlights strategic aspects of sustainable supply chain management and reveals leveraging sustainability points in the cocoa industry. Design/methodology/approach The two-step qualitative approach relies on text-mining company reports and subsequent content analysis that identifies the topics disclosed and relates them to SDG targets. Findings This study distinguishes 18 SDG targets connected to cocoa traders and 30 SDG targets to chocolate manufacturers. The following topics represent the main nexuses of connections: decent labour promotion and gender equity (social), empowering local communities and supply chain monitoring (economic) and agroforestry and climate action (environmental). Practical implications By highlighting the interconnections between the SDGs targeted by companies in the cocoa supply chain, this paper sheds light on the strategic SDGs for this industry and their relationships, which can help to improve sustainability disclosure and transparency. One interesting input for companies is the improvement of climate crisis prevention, focusing on non-renewable sources minimisation, carbon footprint and clear indicators of ecologic materiality. Social implications This study contributes to policymakers to enhance governance and accountability of global supply chains that are submitted to different regulation regimes. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, no previous study has framed the cocoa industry from a broader SDG perspective. The interconnections identified reveal the key goals of the cocoa supply chain and point to strategic sustainability choices for companies in an important global industry.

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Rethinking sustainability in cocoa supply chain in light of SDG disclosure

Martins,

Batalhão,

Ahokas

et al. 2023

SAMPJ

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“…Eradication of all forms of child labor by 2015 is listed among the Sustainable Development Goals (Target 8.7) of the United Nations [4]. Child labor is characterized as a crucial factor of the social dimension of sustainability [5] and it is included among the sustainability challenges of several agricultural sub-sectors, namely cocoa production [6][7][8], coffee production [9], etc.…”

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Capital Inflows and Working Children in Developing Countries: An Empirical Approach

Kechagia

Metaxas

2023

Sustainability

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International capital flows and the operation of multinational enterprises (MNEs) are influenced by several socioeconomic and political factors. Among them, low labor cost is listed among the determinants that attract foreign capital, primarily foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, which in various cases is attributed to unskilled employees, including working children. Working children, mainly in developing countries, remain an important social issue which has attracted increasing research interest, as well as the coordinated efforts of international organizations. The present research aims to empirically investigate the interaction between FDI inflows and child labor in developing countries using panel data analysis. The paper includes an extensive literature review of related empirical research on the association between child labor and FDI inflows in developing countries. The novelty of the study is attributed to its effort to empirically investigate the causality between FDI and child labor in two geographic regions that present high rates of working children, namely sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. A sample of 42 developing countries from a period ranging from 1980 to 2019 was used and Granger causality tests were applied. The study concludes that there is a unidirectional causal relationship from FDI inflows to child labor in these regions and no causality was observed from child labor on macroeconomic independent variables. Several policies and proposals that will reduce or prevent child labor in the subsidiaries of multinational companies are included.

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“…One of them is ratified into the national law at the level of law. Long before the birth of a global agreement called the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) or Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which concentrated on eradicating poverty (Astuti & Prasetyo, 2014), the development of rural villages in Indonesia had been based on the western developmentalism model promoted by international development assistance such as IGGI, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the World Bank (Ansong, 2020;Eskelinen, 2021).…”

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Hibernation of the Village Law in Large-Scale Palm Oil Plantations: A Case Study of Oil Palm Expansion in Sintang District, West Kalimantan

Borni Kurniawan,

Dharmawan,

Sumarti

et al. 2023

jpp

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This paper seeks to present the results of testing the implementation of the Village Law in villages covered by large-scale oil palm plantations. The socio-economic and political dynamics of villages with oil palm are in stark contrast to villages that are relatively free from the circle of the plantation capitalist system. This research examines it by focusing on the study of customary land acquisition practices and partnerships between smallholders and oil palm plantation companies in the Sintang District. Qualitative research using a case study approach which is the basis for writing this paper found that the Village Law, which many people hoped would free villages from the threats of the industrialization of forests and oil palm plantations, in fact, could not do much or, in the author's language, the Village Law was in hibernation.

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SDG 8 and Elimination of Child Labour in the Cocoa Industry in Ghana: Can WTO Law and Private Sector Responsible Business Initiatives Help?

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

Rethinking sustainability in cocoa supply chain in light of SDG disclosure

Rethinking sustainability in cocoa supply chain in light of SDG disclosure

Capital Inflows and Working Children in Developing Countries: An Empirical Approach

Hibernation of the Village Law in Large-Scale Palm Oil Plantations: A Case Study of Oil Palm Expansion in Sintang District, West Kalimantan

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