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Ivory Coast cocoa farmers seek gold in face of drought

2016-09-04 07:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Today: nce a cocoa planter, Ferdinand Konan Yao has joined the ranks of fellow farmers who have abandoned Ivory Coast`s top cash crop to work in clandestine gold mines buried deep in the plantations. "It hasn`t rained for more than five years and cocoa`s no longer worth anything," said Yao, sporting a cowboy hat. Ivory Coast is the world`s leading cocoa exporter but it is the prospect of striking gold that is luring diggers from neighbouring Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea. They come to seek their...

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