Cocoa futures traded around $10,280 per tonne, their lowest in over a week and down from recent 3-1/2-month highs of $10,932 per tonne, on some profit-taking and amid expectations for favorable rain in West Africa.
Or maybe you’re prescient. Roving bands of cocoa robbers who surround armored ice cream trucks is a plausible dystopian scenario in the US, and now I’ll be disappointed if I don’t get to see it.
The problem with cocoa isn’t really global warming. It has been consistently dying because of a plague, that is well adapted to the same weather as cocoa.
Perhaps the solution would be a genetically engineered yeast that secretes theobromine and can be grown in vats anywhere. In a decade or two, that may be the only economically viable source of chocolate, and a few decades later, there may be nobody left who remembers the difference.
There’s some evidence that just plain-old genetic diversity solves the problem quite finely. But one one variety of cocoa has been manipulated into the hugely productive plants we expect them to be.
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I did a quick search and got this:
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/cocoa
so around $1.03 for 100 grams.
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Or maybe you’re prescient. Roving bands of cocoa robbers who surround armored ice cream trucks is a plausible dystopian scenario in the US, and now I’ll be disappointed if I don’t get to see it.
The problem with cocoa isn’t really global warming. It has been consistently dying because of a plague, that is well adapted to the same weather as cocoa.
Perhaps the solution would be a genetically engineered yeast that secretes theobromine and can be grown in vats anywhere. In a decade or two, that may be the only economically viable source of chocolate, and a few decades later, there may be nobody left who remembers the difference.
There’s some evidence that just plain-old genetic diversity solves the problem quite finely. But one one variety of cocoa has been manipulated into the hugely productive plants we expect them to be.