Global warming is killing chocolate
Baku, October 7 (AZERTAC). Global warming is killing the world`s chocolate supply, agricultural researchers find. Cote D`Ivoire and Ghana together provide 53 percent of the world`s chocolate, but warming temperatures and changing precipitation mean rapid declines in growing conditions over the coming decades. The new report from the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture paints a dire picture for the future of the cacao tree in West Africa: ~ Half of the world`s cocoa comes from the West African nations of Ivory Coast and Ghana. An expected temperature rise of more than two degrees Celsius by 2050 will render many of the region`s cocoa-producing areas too hot for the plants that bear the fruit from which chocolate is made, says a new study from the Colombia-based International Centre ...More for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). ~ “What we are saying is that if we don`t take any action, there won`t be sufficient chocolate around in the future,” said Peter Läderach, the report`s lead author. ~ “Already we`re seeing the effects of rising temperatures on cocoa crops currently produced in marginal areas, and with climate change these areas are certain to spread,” says Dr. Peter Laderach. ~ By 2030, there will be a massive decline in optimal cacao-growing regions in West Africa. ~ The fossil fuel pollution that is heating up the planet also threatens the production of coffee, beer, and wine.
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