Source: https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/climate-change-food-insecurity-shrinkflation-big-business/
Weather forecasters are blaming low rain and several years of a tougher than previous Harmattan wind – an annual wind that blows from the Sahara in Africa’s north-east – for lowering crop yields in Cote D’Ivoire and Ghana. Back almost 10 years ago, climate modellers were warning that climate change could have an impact on cocoa farmers. And here we are. Almost 70% of the globe’s cocoa is farmed down around that part of Africa. Around two million people are sustained by the industry.