http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/dont...te-4642238
There are a couple of charts in the article. Couldn't figure out the links.
There are a couple of charts in the article. Couldn't figure out the links.
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Try not to panic, but the world is in chocolate deficit. Chocolate. Deficit.
Last year, the world ate about 70,000 tons more cocoa than it produced. That's a lot of bars of Dairy Milk. And we're in the throes of the longest consecutive streak of chocolate deficits in more than 50 years.
How does that look? Well, there are 11g of cocoa per 220g bar of chocolate. So... 6,363,636,364 bars of Dairy Milk.
Leading chocolate brands Mars Inc and Bary Callebaut AG have predicted that the shortfall will rise to 1 million metric tons by 2020 - and up to 2 million by 2030. Eeeek!
Well, the main reason is we're eating too much chocolate. But also:
In the Ivory Coast and Ghana, where more than 70% of the world’s cocoa is produced, dry weather has ravaged cocoa plants. And global warming means this is only going only going to get worse - temperatures are set to increase there by up to 2 degrees Celcius by 2050.
A disease called Frosty Pod has also wiped out between 30 and 40% of the world’s cocoa production.
The world is only getting hungrier for chocolate. China imports more and more chocolate each year, and though they only consume around 5% per capita of what Western people eat, that figure is increasing.
Cocoa farmers don't see much of the profit from selling their beans so they're moving into more profitable crops, such as rubber.
Chocolate is getting pricier. The fact that your Freddo bar has gone from 10p to 25p is no coincidence - From 1993 to 2007, the price of cocoa has risen from $1,465/ton to $2,736/ton - an 87 percent rise.
Fate whispers to the warrior, "You cannot withstand the storm." And the warrior whispers back, "I am the storm."
Women and children can be careless, but not men - Don Corleone
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