{"id":1019,"date":"2019-05-21T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.divinechocolate.com\/blog\/inspiring-the-next-generation-of-cocoa-farmers\/"},"modified":"2019-05-21T19:39:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T10:00:22","slug":"inspiring-the-next-generation-of-cocoa-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.divinechocolate.com\/divine-world\/inspiring-the-next-generation-of-cocoa-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Esther &#038; Samuel: inspiring the next generation of cocoa farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In 2016, two children of Kuapa Kokoo farmers &#8212; Esther Awusi and Samuel Awuni &#8212; were selected to visit the UK as ambassadors of Kuapa Kokoo for a \u2018Fairtrade Kids Tour.\u2019 They came to share their perspectives and their experiences related to the ways Fairtrade has impacted their lives and their communities. The two 15-year-olds took part in a series of conferences in London, Scotland, Liverpool, and Cornwall. Read on below to learn more about their visit. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the third time we have invited young people from the Kuapa Kokoo farming community to come over to UK so they can find out more about our love of chocolate and our support for Fairtrade while sharing their own stories first-hand with school children here,\u201d explained Tom Steele, Manager of Trading Visions. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an incredible experience for everyone \u2013 meeting and hearing the Ghanaian children has more impact on schoolchildren here than a classroom text ever could. And, in turn, the young farmers\u2019 children have their eyes opened to the industry built from the cocoa grown by their families \u2013 as well as all the surprises and experiences being out of Ghana for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The international media regularly highlights the potential risk to future cocoa supply, so if our growing demand for chocolate around the world is to be fulfilled, the focus on the next generation of cocoa farmers becomes very important. <\/p>\n<p>Unless young people in Ghana today can see a future in cocoa, they will seek work elsewhere. It is becoming increasingly clear &#8212; as summarized in the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cocoabarometer.org\/Barometer_2015.html\">Cocoa Barometer<\/a>\u201d report &#8212; that unless cocoa farmers are able to receive increased income from the cocoa they grow, they will stop farming cocoa.<\/p>\n<p>Trading Visions and Divine Chocolate are both working to enable cocoa farmers\u2019 voices to be heard in the debate over the future of chocolate. Esther and Samuel\u2019s visit in the UK hopefully helped the next generation understand that Fairtrade (and its focus on fair and sustainable income for farmers) is a way of ensuring a future for cocoa and the chocolate we love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2016, two children of Kuapa Kokoo farmers &#8212; Esther Awusi and Samuel Awuni &#8212; were selected to visit the UK as ambassadors of Kuapa Kokoo for a \u2018Fairtrade Kids Tour.\u2019 They came to share their perspectives and their experiences [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Esther &amp; Samuel: inspiring the next generation of cocoa farmers | Blog - Divine Chocolate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In 2016, two children of Kuapa Kokoo farmers -- Esther Awusi and Samuel Awuni -- were selected to visit the UK as ambassadors of Kuapa Kokoo for a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.divinechocolate.com\/divine-world\/inspiring-the-next-generation-of-cocoa-farmers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Esther &amp; 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