The world’s biggest cocoa producer is on course for a second straight record crop, but its plans for bigger control over prices for the following season will remain a major cause of uncertainty for traders.
Nobody is suffering more from a global chocolate standoff than the Côte d'Ivoire cocoa farmer.
Chocolate is under threat from climate change, but farmers in Ghana are trialling an innovative “agroforestry” scheme to protect cocoa crops from its impacts.
Most people would look at the paradisiacal coast of Bahia in northeastern Brazil and think of beachy holidays and the place where F1 star driver Lewis Hamilton chose to celebrate New Year’s Eve 2023.