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Chocolate factories across the globe are shutting their doors thanks to diminishing supplies of cocoa beans. Now cocoa prices have skyrocketed since last year, doubling the previous high from the 1970s.
The majority of the world’s cocoa comes from Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, areas that have been recently plagued by climate anomalies. After years of scientists’ warnings about how shifting weather patterns could harm agriculture, the effect is being felt on Africa’s cocoa farms.
The Weekend Brief will dig deeper into how this threat to our sweet treats is emblematic of our worldwide climate crisis, and why relations between cocoa farmers and those they sell to may only exacerbate the issue.
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