EU lawmakers call for pact on cocoa prices with Ivory Coast and Ghana

FILE PHOTO: Women prepare cocoa beans next to a warehouse in Soubre, Ivory Coast January 9, 2021. Picture taken January 9, 2021. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - A group of European Union parliamentarians has asked the European Commission to open negotiations with Ivory Coast and Ghana to address low cocoa prices, it said in a letter.

The two West African countries, which together produce more than 60% of the world's cocoa, called on the EU earlier this year to join them in creating an economic pact which would ensure cocoa farmers earn a living wage.