Climate change will destroy cocoa yields by 2030 without support farmers warn - Banbury FM

Prices for chocolate are rising, mainly because of the cost of cocoa, which has increased fivefold in the meantime. This is due to climate-related crop failures and stock market speculations.

Climate change will destroy cocoa yields by 2030 without support farmers warn - Banbury FM

Cocoa yields will be “destroyed” by 2030 without financial support and fairer markets, Ivory Coast farmers have warned. The West African nation is the biggest producer of cocoa in the world, with farmers in the Bafing-Tonkpi region supplying chocolate to global markets, including the UK. But years of depressed prices have eroded farmers’ ability to reinvest in their land, meaning aging trees, diseases and increasingly unpredictable climate condi…

Climate change will destroy cocoa yields by 2030 without support, farmers warn - Rother Radio

Cocoa yields will be “destroyed” by 2030 without financial support and fairer markets, Ivory Coast farmers have warned. The West African nation is the biggest producer of cocoa in the world, with farmers in the Bafing-Tonkpi region supplying chocolate to global markets, including the UK. But years of depressed prices have eroded farmers’ ability to reinvest in their land, meaning aging trees, diseases and increasingly unpredictable climate condi…