The chapter highlights a 25% decrease in cocoa production in Ivory Coast, leading to a surge in cocoa prices. It delves into the challenges of growing cocoa, such as susceptibility to diseases like swollen shoots, causing the need to uproot and replant infected trees, resulting in a smaller harvest.
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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