Is Chocolate Good for Cote d'Ivoire?

Where is Cote d'Ivoire?

• Western Africa

• Northern coast of Africa

• Eastern Africa

• Southern Africa

Cote d'Ivoire was a colony of which European country?

• England

• The United States

• France

• Japan

Name the most important cash crop in Cote d'Ivoire

• tobacco

• cocoa

• cotton

• maize

"Export" means to ...

• sell products to another country

• buy products from another country

• sell products within your own country

• buy products from within your own country

Cocoa is said to be worth its weight in gold in Cote d'Ivoire because...

• It is the country's most important export and accounts for 45% of the chocolate grown in the world

• The global demand for chocolate is high

• 2/3s of the people in Cote d'Ivoire depend on cocoa production to survive

Why is cocoa grown only in certain parts of the world?

• Cocoa pods only grow in jungle-like areas along the earth's equator where the conditions include warm temperature, plentiful rainfall, and shade.

• Cocoa pods need warm temperatures

• Cocoa pods need a lot of rain

• Cocoa pods only grow near the equator

Children working on cocoa farms sometimes cut themselves with

• knives

• scissors

• machetes

• sticks

Which species of animals has suffered because cocoa is illegally being grown in Cote d'Ivoire's "protected" forests and reserves?

• hippopotamus

• monkeys

• reptiles

• birds

What percentage (%) of Cote d'Ivoire's protected forests have illegal cocoa farms on them?

• 10%

• 28%

• 45%

• 74%

What percentage of the cost of a chocolate bar goes back to the farmers?

• 75%

• 50%

• 25%

• 5%