to be $2300.00 per ton in order to earn a living income so that's way more and i'm talking about the amount that needs to reach the farmers the what market prize which includes costs for transportation for marketing etc will need to be even higher than that so possibly something above $3000.00 u.s. dollars per ton i think it's incredible that someone sitting in a shop just selling someone else's job would get so much money for the what sitting in a shop and sell it well definitely it's a question of a power imbalance in the cocoa sector that you currently have so on the one hand you have some very powerful companies companies like nestlé munda lees and mars on the other hand you have millions of cocoa farmers that don't have any influence on the cocoa prices and business to a situation where they can't really live off their coca production how is it got to that situation well. i mean it's got as i said it's got to do with the power imbalance so. companies are getting more and more powerful in the cause of globalization and the states are not really doing anything to to to regulate it

many farmers also don't really know how to fight for their rights many are not it is organized in cooperatives for example so that it also lead to overproduction i mean. that different factors for over production but one interesting factor is that the companies have been arguing that farmers need to increase their productivity so they need to produce higher yields in order to earn more income so now we have a situation where we have more supply than demand for cocoa and this is also contributed to the decreasing market price so from our perspective it's not enough if the companies keep saying that we need to increase the productivity we need to talk about fair prices well some would argue that this problem with the pricing has led to child labor i mean a heap of kids in west africa working on plantations. how is that making the situation even more complicated i mean you're absolutely right about it's so tight labor is a complex issue it's tied to many different factors so it's

a question of lack of awareness in the communities it's also a question of a lack of infrastructure not enough schools and cocoa growing areas but as he has said it's also tied to the poverty issue because farmers are not using their children as free labor because they're bad people but they're using them because they're not able to afford adult workers which they need to pay so you can't solve the tight labor issue without also playing the poverty problem and making the job itself sweeter for younger growers who are maybe not so interested in getting into the job because the pay isn't good exactly so i find it totally understandable if young people are searching for other jobs because it's not very attractive because i mean cocoa farming involves a lot of hard work on a day to day basis and in the end you still end up living in poverty so that's not attractive at all so i can understand why the pharmacist don't want to go on with that thank you very much. and i start business with.

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disappeared from the villages of the central african republic that's making a comeback. hello i'm kristie want to welcome to news africa it's good to have you along with some fun stuff today scientists have just released images of what. could have looked like the reconstruction is based on a 3800000 year old skull fondant ethiopia which is you know often seen as the birthplace of mankind now announcing the scientific finding at this research has saved the discovery changes our understanding of how ancient humans evolved it's here in the far reaching of ethiopia more than 500 kilometers north of the capital at his ababa but this latest discovery was buried professor you had his

haile selassie and his team found the ancient early human skull here in 2016 after only days of sifting through the sand 1st they spotted the all but job bones sticking out of the ground then uncovered the rest of the fossil my 1st instinct was this 3 pieces were perfectly joined i picked up the maxilla and i picked up the crimean and click perfect grim the skull is 3800000 years old and about the size of a modern chimp and see it's the most complete one of that age ever found giving the scientists a chance to reconstruct how this early human ancestor might have looked. you hanna's haile selassie is one of the world's leading evolutionary scientists he says the find challenges ideas about how the 1st humans evolved from apelike

ancestors. this is really. a game changer in a lot of ways and answers questions that we've had lingering around for decades and . now from this beautiful specimen that we found that's because this new find has some distinct differences to another ancient skeleton found here by that of lucy probably the most famous human fossil it's further proof that early humans were a diverse bunch with different species living in the same time period. scientists say with this discovery they can all finally put a face to the name of some of our earliest ancestors. now physical abuse of women is carthy one of the most discussed topics in nigeria after s n it's a was caught on camera a few weeks ago brittany slapping a woman is now being investigated and faces possible dismissal from the and i dare in senate i'll correspondent. on the devastating effects of violence against women

in the country. fatima is a young single mother who has 3 children she wants to keep right there to see heat in fatima says she endured beatings for my husband for 11 years of the american church the most severe was when he beats her for taking the biggest fish in the ports as i was trying to nurse to our gods i'm never using our now as our default we're going to be distracted it's. good to be in fatima was rushed to hospital by her neighbors the violence she suffered from her husband has scarred half forever but 5 as it gives women doesn't only happen in relationships and in the home it's much more widespread a few weeks ago this c.c.t.v.

video triggered outrage stress bond says it shows in nigeria and say neat-o. slapping a woman on the mall to pull times. i have. to man had intervened in the argument he was having with the shop or nah.