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Gabriel Adjei: How rice farming improved my family’s quality of life
Field Stories
“I was poor because I was concentrating on only cocoa as an income source, with this rice farm, I now have an option,” said Gabriel Adjei, a cocoa farmer in the Nkranfo Nkwanta community in the Ashanti region of Ghana. “I can now confidently say providing for the school needs of my children will no longer be a challenge to me as I have every intention of continuing with the rice farm alongside the cocoa.”
Gabriel was identified as a farmer in need of support by the Nestlé Cocoa Plan’s Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS), implemented with the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI). CLMRS are embedded into company supply chains to identify, monitor, prevent and address child labour cases. Gabriel was engaging his children in child labour because of his inability to hire adult labourers. In 2018, Gabriel, together with others in his community, received rice seeds, agrochem