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Is West Africa’s cocoa cash crunch setting up the next global chocolate shock?

Cocoa Farmer. © Pexels
Cocoa Farmer. © Pexels

From unpaid farmers to debt-laden cocoa boards, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire’s cash crisis is exposing how fragile the world’s chocolate supply chain really is.

Unpaid cocoa farmers in West Africa are fast becoming the weakest link in a global chocolate supply chain already stretched by debt, climate shocks and record price swings.

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