"Chocolate Crisis" Worsened by Climate Change, Researchers Warn

Cocoa is one of the six foods most sensitive to environmental threats in the current "extremely worrying situation" for food.

The supply of important agricultural raw materials to Europe is under threat due to environmental threats. Experts warn in particular about the chocolate crisis that cocoa shortages may cause in the future. African farmers are not prepared for the consequences of ongoing climate change and biodiversity loss.

Climate breakdown and wildlife lost are opening the EU’s “cocolate crisis”, a report has argued, with cocoa one of six key mutations to be mostly from countries vulnerable to environmental threats.More...