CHOCOLATE

According to a recent BBC Radio 4 Food Programme chocolate production is threatened by global warming. Cocoa trees, from which we get cocoa beans, are climate sensitive. They only grow in particular areas and as our climate changes these zones are moving.

A representative of the chocolate industry played down the seriousness of this situation stating that it was simply a matter of growing trees in the new zones. However, a majority of the growers, mostly in west Africa, are subsistence farmers paid very little for their crop and so are unable to fund new trees.

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