Who runs the life of the cocoa farmers in Ghana?
Ghana is home to many cocoa farmers as a result many families depend on the produce as a means of sustenance. However, cocoa price is not determined in Ghana, but in Western markets. Cocoa is cheap in Ghana, but sold expensively in the West. We look at the raw product in Ghana and the conditions it is planted, harvested and exported; then pick up at the other end of the chain by looking at the prices of chocolate, and when and how it is sold in an attempt to figure out who runs the life of the cocoa farmers of Ghana. Who Runs Your World? is the BBC’s largest ever single-themed season of programmes. Running from 16 September to 2 October, it will feature on all the BBC global news services – TV, radio and online – in English and in 42 other languages including Hausa, Swahili and Kinyarwanda/Kirundi. The season explores power: who wants it; how it is used and how it is changing. And it is not just about politics, as every aspect of life comes under the Who Runs Your World? spotlight incl
