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Cacao Source: An emerging sustainable chocolate landscape

Cacao Source: An emerging sustainable chocolate landscape

D'Aboville, Alain M.
Lo, Cherrie

Paperback

Series: 1, Book 1

AgricultureChocolate

Publisher Price: $23.95

ISBN10: 1734004002
ISBN13: 9781734004007
Publisher: Alain d'Aboville
Published: Sep 5 2019
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.38 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

The seemingly endless expansion of the chocolate shelves at your local food store is only the visible side of the deep metamorphosis happening to the aging chocolate industry.

Approximately five million tropical farmers, mostly in West Africa, produce over four and half million tons of cacao beans that are converted into an eighty-three-Billion-dollar industry run by two dozen multinational companies. Since the 1980's' the shareholder's value and profits of many of these businesses have multiplied, in some cases by a factor of thirty and even more while the amount paid to the farmers has been divided by a factor of up to three. Concurrently, global warming has made cacao farming more difficult and hazardous, diminishing further its appeal to the next generations. The alternative to this clearly un-sustainable status quo remains to be found. In today's financialized world, one can only hope that consumers' behavior will have an impact meaningful enough to save the cacao planet.

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