golden shackles
The world’s second-largest cocoa producer wants to shield it from mining and decline, but sweeping new protections risk turning ordinary farming choices into serious crimes.
For generations, Ghana’s cocoa farmers have lived with the risks of volatile prices, ageing trees, disease and rising production costs. Now they face a new calculation: what happens when the state decides that planting cocoa on your land gives it a national interest in what you can do with that land?
