The Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) announced it would help resettle some of the children removed from hazardous labour in the country's cocoa farms.

The 4 October statement is part of Cocobod's efforts to meet the requirements of international certification, in order to avoid the threat of an international boycott of Ghanaian cocoa.

Throughout 2005, monitoring of child labour has been carried out in five of Ghana's districts, four of which are cocoa producing, representing approximately 8 per cent of total cocoa production.

Earlier this year, large-scale trials of a new monitoring system were launched in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire covering 80,000 small farms. Research carried out in 2001 found that over 200,000 children were working in hazardous conditions on cocoa farms in West Africa.