Cocoa farmers operate in a chocolate supply chain that perpetuates poverty and bear the bulk of the risk, claims Cacao for Change as it proposes an alternative model.
The International Cocoa Organization has quelled media reports of a chocolate crisis in 2020 and says there are sufficient cocoa stocks for the next five years.
Neither a price hike nor the added strain of life in the United
States since the terror attacks of Sept 11 have deterred some
chocolate buyers from getting their dose of sweets, say industry
watchers.