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cocoa through direct and indirect ways (Kudłak and Low 2015). By empowering the farmers in
Asia and Africa on the best farming practices, Mars will play a huge role in ensuring that the
communities increase their ability to create wealth. Multinational Corporations like Mars
generate a lot of profits and the best way to acknowledge and give gratitude to the producers of
raw material is to empower them (Hurley 2018). Mars could also utilize the declaration of
ensuring lives by striving to eliminate hazards and risky working environments in its
manufacturing plants and also to the producers of Cocoa. The topic of climate change is very
important and should be the first priority to Mars. That is basically because of the fact that the
production of Cocoa hugely causes the depletion of the environment (Hicks 2017). The high
demand for Cocoa forces the poverty-stricken communities to plant Cocoa with all the means
possible (Wang and Wang 2018). That is inclusive of clearing forests and natural bushes to
create space for planting cocoa. In the process, the environment is largely depleted of its habitat.
Instead of planting trees, communities will shun tree growing because they will not see value in
it (Monaghan 2018). Therefore, Mars has the sole responsibility of ensuring that it does not
further lead to the depletion of the environment through its demand creation for cocoa. To ensure
that the planet is healthy, the confectionery company will then strive to develop strategies for
cleaning the environment.
Question 3
Being a Trans National Corporation, Mars operates in more than two countries. Most of
those countries are Cocoa-producing countries like Indonesia and Palm oil producing countries
like Malaysia. Given the different countries that Mars has to cover in its sustainability measures,
it is bound to face the problems of clashing or contradictory practices and technological
standards. Mars recognizes, therefore, the fact that the best application of environmental

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