Question: Does the company’s statement identify specific geographic regions (e.g. Indonesia), industries (e.g. agriculture), resources (e.g. Palm Oil) or types of workforce (e.g. migrant workers) where the risk of modern slavery is the greatest?"
Answer:
Geographic
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Walk Free
Suma Wholefoods
2016
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updated over 6 years ago by Salma

"The Food Empowerment Project recommends that you do not buy cocoa products from West Africa, unless from a worker coop. This is due to the increased risk of slavery and trafficking in this area. Where we found that a cocoa supplier could not satisfactorily demonstrate that they were buying from a cooperative, we stopped trading with them. We are in the process of looking for a new supplier who meets this criteria."

Salma.....2017-10-17 16:07:26 UTC

"We aim to avoid buying from countries or companies with proven poor human rights records"

Although in the statement they do mention about no buying cocoa products from West Africa, I think it may have also been helpful if they had included a few examples of the countries that they try to avoid as mentioned in the above quotation.

Poppy Wood.....2017-10-23 13:23:47 UTC