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Cocoa Farmers in Africa Taste Chocolate for the First Time

Added: 22 Dec 2016 Contributor: Clare Quigley Resource type: Audio / Video

This short video report (approx 5 mins) from the Ivory Coast looks at the life of small-famers who grow and harvest cocoa but who have never tasted chocolate. The video shows cocoa farmers and workers getting their first taste of chocolate which is made from the cocoa they produce. It is in Dutch with English subtitles.

How it maps to the curriculum

5-6
SESE Geography

Strand: Human Environments

Strand unit: Trade & Development

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

  • come to appreciate the inequalities between the developed and the developing world
  • explore, through the study of some major world commodities, trade issues

Suggestions for use: This video could be used as a lesson starter for a unit of work on FairTrade.

Meta information

  • Asset type: Video
  • Language: English
  • Rights: All rights reserved
  • Cost: No
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