{"id":73834,"date":"2014-11-18T20:55:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T18:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/73834\/act-now-world-running-chocolate\/"},"modified":"2014-11-18T20:55:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T18:55:40","slug":"act-now-world-running-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2014\/11\/18\/act-now-world-running-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Act now: The world is running out of chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the drought in Ghana and the Ivory Coast, where a whopping 70 per cent of the world&#8217;s cocoa is farmed, conditions have not been ideal to produce chocolate, and a substantial percentage of production has been countered by fungal disease.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.food24.com\/News-and-Guides\/Features\/World-shortage-of-chocolate-expected-20141118\" target=\"_blank\">Food24<\/a>, \u201cMany West African cocoa farmers don&#8217;t even enjoy the luxury of chocolate for their labour.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>A video which has been doing the rounds shows how an Ivory Coast cocoa farmer tastes chocolate for the first time.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/zEN4hcZutO0' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>First taste of chocolate in Ivory Coast<\/strong><\/em><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>The price of chocolate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ravenous appetite for chocolate is ever-rising and China isn&#8217;t helping. Chocolate snobs aren&#8217;t making things any easier; the darker the chocolate, the higher the proportion of cocoa.<\/p>\n<p>Like other mass-produced commodities, efforts are underway to make chocolate even cheaper and more abundant than it already is.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post reports that trees producing seven times more cocoa beans than usual are evolving thanks to an agricultural research group in Central Africa. As expected, such a trade-off may compromise taste.<\/p>\n<p>One can only imagine, \u201cIf you stocked up on your favourites, how long would the stash last?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='ae04f6c11eb850d4361852acccdc6a41'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chocolate producers are feeling the pinch caused by the amount of chocolate intake across the world, as cocoa farmers are struggling to keep up with the rate at which chocolate is devoured. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":73837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[5686,5687,5688,972,1083],"class_list":["post-73834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-chocolate","tag-cocoa","tag-diet","tag-entertainment-2","tag-food"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["chocolate","cocoa","diet","entertainment","food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}