Looks like affordable chocolate will unfortunately be another casualty of man made climate change:
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/eat/difficult-decision-cadbury-increases-chocolate-prices-again-as-cocoa-crisis-continues/news-story/0f6e625834e02b123e1db1f5d81d4e4c“This followed a similar-sized year-on-year jump seen in the June 2023 quarter, so the cumulative increase in this category between June 2022 and June 2024 is 21.8 per cent,” Mr Joules said.
Speaking to NBC News this week, Ghanaian farmer Daniel Amponsah Gyinayeh, 66, said harvesting cocoa had become more difficult in recent years.
“We have lived on cocoa money until now,” Mr Gyinayeh said.
“[Then] climate change started to come in, things became different. It was like hell for cocoa farmers. The yield dropped, reduced drastically, and poverty was everywhere.”
