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Fairtrade Fortnight - Rosine DeservesMonday, 4 March 2019 | Joanna Rosine Bekoin is a mum of five, cocoa farmer and member of CAYAT co-operative in Côte d’Ivoire. Rosine is slightly unusual as cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire go – because she owns and runs her 2.5-hectare farm, which was passed to her from her mother. Normally it is men who own farms and earn the income from them. Rosine first sold her cocoa as Fairtrade in 2016. Having received training in quality and good agricultural practices from CAYAT, her production increased by 50 percent from 1 tonne in 2017 to 1.5 tonnes in 2018. Rosine was the inspiration behind the Fairtrade Foundation's hidden hot chocolate cafe: For one week only, Rosine's Hot Chocolate Salon popped up in London. Hidden inside an unassuming newsagents, as secret button would transport you into a West African themed speakeasy-style cafe. Rosine’s Hot Chocolate Salon was named after a cocoa farmer from Côte d’Ivoire and told the story behind our favourite chocolate bars and why cocoa farmers like Rosine deserve a living income. There were three truly delicious hot chocolates on the menu, each named after a Fairtrade cocoa farmer. Costing just £1.86 each, this represented a day’s living income for a cocoa farmer. That is what they need to earn in order to live a dignified life. (Currently they earn less than half of that; around 74p a day.) These were the three hot chocolates on offer:
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