The bitter truth about chocolate: tackling water injustice in cocoa supply chains.
The global chocolate industry depends on millions of smallholder farmers. Without them, there is no chocolate.
Yet despite this fundamental truth, the sector is defined by a deeply unequal, deeply predictable power balance. Household-name chocolate brands, mostly headquartered in high-income countries, generate enormous profits. Meanwhile, cocoa production, much of it concentrated in West Africa, remains strongly associated with extreme poverty, child labour and deforestation.
Now new Water Witness evidence reveals another hidden injustice at the heart of this value chain: widespread water poverty and escalating climate vulnerability.
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