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.
(via Ivory Coast women form cocoa collective | The Guardian)
All photos taken on November 17, 2014 by Thierry Gouegnon/Reuters.
