Exploring the hardships encountered by cocoa farmers in Ghana due to cocoa shortages and price fluctuations, resulting in limited benefits despite high cocoa prices. The chapter highlights how government price regulations hinder farmers from investing in their farms, pushing some to switch to more profitable crops or sell their land to gold miners.
Cocoa has never been so expensive. That’s bad news for players all along the chocolate supply chain: from farmers, to chocolatiers, to chocolate lovers.
In today’s episode, we travel from a farm in Ghana to Jacques Torres’ chocolate factory in Brooklyn, on a journey to understand the origins of a cocoa crisis – and what it means for the future of chocolate.
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