(The Conversation) – A shortage of cocoa beans has led to a near shutdown of processing plants in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, the two countries responsible for 60% of global production.

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The price per ton of cocoa ended 2024 with a 178.2% surge, closing at $11,675 after reaching an all-time high of $12,931.

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The beans are then removed from the pods with their surrounding pulp. Workers fill sacks with cocoa beans in Kahin village at the edge of the Scio forest reserve in Duekoue, Ivory Coast.

But agriculture modernisation efforts have encouraged the development of "full-sun" monocrop plantations that only focus on growing cocoa beans, without the use of companion plants or trees.