Cocoa can only be grown close to the equator, mostly in West Africa, and farmers there lack incentives to replant the trees as they die, as cocoa trees take three years to mature. Combined with a drought in that area, crops being destroyed by two mysterious diseases that have scientists baffled and ever-more gluttonous choco-habits, and you've got a shortage. Indeed, the price of chocolate has doubled in the last six years.
Says John Mason, founder of the Ghana-based Nature Conservation Research Council: "In 20 years chocolate will be like caviar. It will become so rare and so expensive that the average Joe just won't be able to afford it."
This week, a look at why a chocolate revolution may be at hand.
TTFN, Fred.
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Chocolate Supply Threatened by Cocoa Crisis
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