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Our responsibility as consuming countries includes ensuring that everyone in the entire supply chain of a product – for example, a bar of chocolate – has the right to decent work, a living wage and a living income. Only when workers and smallholder farmers in our global supply chains earn a living wage or income can we effectively address major challenges such as poverty, hunger, deforestation, climate change and child labour.
Living incomes and wages go beyond just making ends meet. It means that a family cannot only provide for its food, housing, health care, education, transport and other essentials, but can also build sufficient financial reserves to become resilient to unforeseen circumstances or crises and break the cycle of poverty. Living incomes and wages thus...
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