The Cadbury brand, owned by Mondel_z International, is facing allegations of child labour on cocoa farms in Ghana. In April 2022, a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary revealed that children as young as 10 were using machetes to harvest cocoa pods, with some working long hours and not attending school. This comes despite the chocolate industry's 20-year-old pledge to eliminate child labour. In the documentary, children can be seen performing hazardous tasks without protective gear. One girl reported a severe injury from using a machete. However, Ghanaian law prohibits children under 13 from working on cocoa farms and bans hazardous labour for anyone under 18. Despite this, such issues are not contained to Mondel_z farms, with a 2020 study finding that 1.56 million children are involved in cocoa farming in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. Behind this child labour is cocoa farmers' poverty, with farmers earning too little to hire adult workers.