Source: Leonce Dieudonne Sessou, DEVEX, 8/6/21


The tobacco industry likes to portray itself as a positive economic force. Yet tobacco farmers across Africa face a harsh economic reality: The industry derives such huge profits in part because it maneuvers to pay as little as possible for the crop that is the basis for its products. This practice is unfair and perpetuates inequality. What’s more, the cycle of poverty that tobacco farmers must confront perpetuates child labor in this industry.

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