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Soumya Gayatri remembers her first encounter with Dubai chocolate vividly. It was a cold, damp night in Munich’s Marienplatz Christkindlmarkt when she saw the long queue for this new kid on the block. “But by then, Dubai chocolate had already become a global sensation: a rich, sticky and unapologetically extra chocolate bar that had shattered industry records, won millions of hearts and was spreading like wildfire across the world,” Gayatri writes. Read more from @BBCNews:

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Close up of broken bar of Dubai chocolate, showing the green pistachio and knafeh inside (Credit: Getty Images)
BBC · 'It was born to be a champion': How Dubai chocolate conquered the worldBy Soumya Gayatri
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“It’s redefining agricultural priorities and reshaping the local economy”
“this shift in #Colombia’s #coffee belt is not just a temporary adaptation but a structural transformation”

Due to rising temperatures and #climatechange, small-scale #coffee #farmers in #Colombia are increasingly planting #cacao.
#Cacao faces fewer immediate challenges compared to #coffee, which is prone to pests and diseases, and can integrate well into #agroforestry systems news.mongabay.com/2025/04/colo

Mongabay Environmental News · Colombian farmers switch from coffee to cacao as temperature and prices soarRISARALDA, Colombia — “Before, anyone who wanted to grow cacao at 1,200 or 1,500 meters [3,900 to 4,900 feet] altitude was considered crazy,” says Orlando Quintero Gonzales, an agronomist in Colombia’s Eje Cafetero, or the Coffee Axis. “Today, with climate change reshaping agricultural landscapes, these altitudes could become optimal for this crop.” As small-scale farmers […]
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#News: 🍫 #KitKat and other #chocolate contains #palmoil linked to #deforestation and #humanrights abuses in #WestPapua. Julie Wark exposes the bitter truth behind this showing how you can #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🩸☠️🧐⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife in the supermarket
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CounterPunch.org · West Papua and the Sweet Taste of MurderIn its increasingly militarised torture mode of governance, the Indonesian regime—now headed by Prabowo Subianto, notorious for his war crimes in East Timor—is the world’s biggest palm oil exporter, to the tune of 47 million tonnes of crude palm oil in 2023, and 54% of global exports. The industry accounts for 4.5% of Indonesian GDP and directly or indirectly employs 16.2 million people. The total area of Indonesian palm oil cultivation is about 25 million hectares (out of 29 million hectares globally, which amounts to approximately 6.7% of the size of the European Union), and plantations covering many million more hectares are planned. In 2023, industrial oil palm plantations in Indonesia expanded by 116,000 hectares, a 54% increase compared with 2022.
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"As covered by major news outlets during recent months, poor yields of cacao as caused by extreme weather and limited demand for the 70% of the cacao pod, combined with low income, are pushing farmers to clear forests to accelerate production.

In West Africa, where the majority of cacao is grown, nearly four million hectares of forests are being cut down each year, at almost double the speed of the world's deforestation average for agriculture.

The poor yields force cacao farmers to earn way below the poverty threshold, leading to child labor and other human rights issues in the chocolate industry."

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Daily Mail · The chocolate industry's dirty secret: The truth behind the world's most famous foodBy Lillian Gissen
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AI6YR Ben

Eww, just learned about Belgian "chocolate hands", which in Belgium ostensibly are about Antwerp but have a much, much darker connection to Belgian colonial history. (Belgium put a bounty on cutting off the hands of the Congolese, resulting in genocide and even many cases of hands being cut off live humans).

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Medium · The Atrocity and Brutality of Belgium’s Black Hand ChocolatesBy Krishna V Chaudhary
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