Cocoa and sustainability

Today, we learned about the process involved with the production of cocoa in Ivory Coast. Most farms are small, family owned ones which struggle to make even 10% of the global poverty standard. Companies like mars and Nestle are trying to enact change to better compensate their growers, so that they will continue growing cocoa. I also looked into the things Nike is doing to be sustainable. Environmentally speaking, they use new construction methods like fly knit which minimizes the amount of material used. They also use left over material from clothing items to grind up and make into shoes.On a humanitarian level nike says "Nike's policy is to evaluate potential contracted factories before they enter the supply chain, and throughout their business relationship with Nike, to assess compliance with high standards of social and environmental performance, including country-related risk for issues including forced labor, human trafficking and slavery."