Why It Sucks to Run a Cocoa Farm

Описание: You are running a cocoa farm while chocolate sells for far more downstream, yet the farm captures only a narrow part of the value. This episode maps the chain from trees and harvest to fermentation, farm-gate pricing, intermediaries, processing, and final chocolate sales, showing where bargaining power and value can separate. We’ll test the obvious fix—produce more—and trace why biological timing, quality, costs, and market access may limit what reaches the producer. The explanation stays conditional: retail price is not the same as farm income, and no single contract represents every cocoa farm. Public evidence, local variation, and model assumptions are kept distinct before the direct loss bearer is identified.