Klimaendringer og sjokoladepriser

Sjokoladeprisen i verden stiger fordi kakaoproduksjonen går ned. I følge the Economist skyldes dette at at vær og klima er i endring. I en artikkel med overskriften "Why chocolate is becoming much more expensive" skriver de at:

"Climate patterns are partly to blame for rising costs. Cocoa is mostly produced by small farmers in West Africa. Ghana and Ivory Coast grow about 60% of the world’s crop (see chart 2). Last season the El Niño weather pattern led to unseasonably high temperatures and rainfall that ravaged crops. Total rainfall in Ivory Coast’s cocoa-growing areas in 2023 was the highest in 20 years, according to Gro Intelligence, a data firm. This year El Niño has brought severe drought to the cocoa farms, reducing production further. ing, a bank, estimates that this year the gap between global production and consumption will be at its widest since at least 2014."