US EditionWhy chocolate is ridiculously expensive right now
- Global cocoa prices rose significantly, causing chocolate costs to jump.
- Disastrous harvests in West Africa caused this price increase as warming reduces cacao yields.
- Droughts, floods, and plant diseases thrashed the region last year, further impacting production.
- Global production fell 14 percent in the 2023-24 season; prices rose 144 percent in December.
- Experts state human activity makes growing cocoa harder, exposing the industry's climate vulnerability.
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Climate Change Is Coming For Your Chocolate, Study Finds
Climate change drove weeks of crop-withering temperatures last year in the West African countries that underpin the world's chocolate supply, hitting harvests and likely further stoking record prices, researchers said Wednesday.
High temperatures, in particular, affect world cocoa production.
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elcorreogallego.esTheobroma means in Greek ‘Food of the Gods’ and it is the one that was chosen in its day to designate a genus of trees that includes 22 species, among them, the one that has the scientific name Theobroma cacao. Its ‘last name’ says it all. The seeds of this tree were already used more than 5,300 years ago in America. They used them as an ingredient for pre-Columbian civilizations such as the Mayans, Aztecs and Incas, among others. And also as a …
Photo by depositphotos.com New Jersey, USA.- Climate change poses a serious threat to chocolate, according to a report published by ‘Climate Central’, an independent group of scientists and communicators based in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. “A Central Climate analysis found that man-made climate change is causing more excessive heat in West Africa, which produces 70 percent of the world’s cocoa, the main ingredient of chocolate,” the text notes.
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