CSR - Chocolate the Bitter Truth

A year ago Panorama broadcast an investigation into the cocoa production industry - certainly a thought-provoking and topical case study for students looking for some extra research evidence on CSR and specifically ethical sourcing.

The You Tube videos below show the four parts of the broadcast.

Panorama reporter Paul Kenyon goes undercover as a cocoa trader in West Africa and discovers children as young as seven working long hours on cocoa farms, helping to make the chocolate we love so much. He buys a tonne of cocoa made with child labour, and sees how easy it is to sell it into the supply chain which leads to our high streets.
He also helps rescue a 12-year-old boy - trafficked across borders - to pick cocoa as a modern-day slave and reunites him with his mother. For the first time, we meet the kids who harvest our cocoa but who have never tasted chocolate.