Ivory Coast: Blood Chocolate
The Produce Industry NetworkAudio · 21st Jul 2026 · 23m
Why does the country that grows 45 percent of the world's cocoa receive between five and seven percent of the value of the chocolate bar it becomes? How did a single crop fund two civil wars simultaneously — with the government and the rebels taxing the same beans to buy weapons to fight each other? And what does the concept of Ivoirité — invented to exclude a presidential rival — have to do with the farms that feed the global chocolate industry?
Join John and Patrick as they tell the story of Côte d'Ivoire and cocoa — the Ivorian Miracle, the blood chocolate report, and the smallholder farmers at the end of the longest supply chain in food...
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