Easter egg prices soar as cocoa crops are hit by climate crisis and exploitation
Experts say the global shortage of the main ingredient of chocolate is linked to poor conditions for farmers supplying large companies Every Easter, UK consumers...
Category : Chocolate
Extortionate Easter eggs and shrinking sweets: fears grow of a ‘chocolate meltdown’
Poor harvests in extreme weather conditions have led to a tripling of cocoa prices – but farmers have seen no benefit Around the world this...
‘Brands to avoid’: Mars and Cadbury among chocolate firms criticised in ethics report
Only 17 out of 82 companies investigated were found to use suppliers that paid cocoa farmers enough to live on Leading chocolate brands have been...
Cocoa planting is destroying protected forests in west Africa, study finds
Global trade in chocolate, worth more than $1tn a year, is leading to widespread deforestation in Ivory Coast and Ghana The world’s hunger for chocolate...
