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Togo's Chocolate Farmers Organise Against International Markets

Chocolate: A Taste of Independence: In Togo, 60% of the population lives in poverty, with its cacao growers drowning under increasingly low prices. From one village to another, one man is advocating a new future for his country, through chocolate production. Subscribe to Journeyman here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... "When we launched the plan of manufacturing chocolate, lots of people did not believe us. Most made fun of us. People said we were mad." Trained in Italy, Komi Agbokou is a chocolate maker and political activist. He has recently returned to Togo with one mission: to incite his fellow countrymen to turn their cacao into chocolate. Komi explains that current cacao prices are decided by "those who transform cocoa", pushing local farmers to sell their produce for increasingly lower prices. For one cacao farmer, the beans have become akin to "dead wood". On a 600km trip from North to South Togo, Komi is fighting to change such attitudes, teaching his people to maximise their produce's worth. For more information, visit https://www.journeyman.tv/film/7546 Like us on Facebook:   / journeymanpictures   Follow us on Twitter:   / journeymannews     / journeymanvod   Follow us on Instagram:   / journeymanpictures   Visit our subreddit:   / journeymanpictures   Say hi on tumblr:   / journeymanpictures   Wild Angle Productions – Ref. 7546