Cocoa Diaries Newsletter
Analysis of all the issues happening within the Global Cocoa-Chocolate Industry
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Everybody Can See the Cocoa Farmer. Why Can’t the Farmer See the Cocoa Market? (opens the original)
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The Cocoa Is Yours. But How Much of It Do You Actually Own? (opens the original)
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Gene-Edited Cocoa, Lab-Grown Chocolate and the New Farmer Dependency (opens the original)
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The Global Cocoa Commodity Market Price Changes in Seconds but The Farmgate Price, ANNUALLY! (opens the original)
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Europe Sets the Clock. Africa Builds the Dashboard. Where Is the Cocoa Farmer? (opens the original)
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In the previous article, I asked whether Africa’s new enthusiasm for cocoa processing would move the farmer from raw-material supplier to owner, or merely create more factories and bureaucracies above him. I argued that a plant in Africa is not automatically farmer value capture. Ownership matters. This week, I want us to look at another infrastructure being built across cocoa-producing countries. It does not rise from the ground like a factory. It sits in tablets, servers, maps, satell
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