25-11-2014 09:00 via theguardian.com

Ivory Coast women form cocoa collective – in pictures

Ivory Coast is the world’s largest exporter of the beans used to make chocolate, with most of the crops coming from small farms or collectives. One of these is known as Blayeya, a women’s-only association in which each member owns a field and the labour is shared. Photographer Thierry Gouegnon captured them at work
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