115 dollars for that bed? Start selling those instead of cocoa! Beautiful bed.

“Without cocoa, chocolate is a no-go” Loved it

Chocolate was too cheap in the last years...just to make the Lindt Stocks expensive enough. I am glad that Ghana is producing now his own!!!!! Chocolate with the own Factory's and People's. This makes the way free to come out the slavery prices for the Farmers to a better live for People which deserve it....and not to make companies like Nestlé or Lindt more and more richer...on the costs of the Farmers and their Families. Thanks and greetings from Andreas in Alsace /France

@aryaman05

23 күн бұрын

Why blame Nestle or Lindt when you have done Nothing to add value to coca beans all these decades ?

@Viertelfranzose

23 күн бұрын

@@aryaman05 because I never bought Nestlé or Lindt Cacao or Chocolate. My only one Source of all my chocolate Stuff in all Styles is goodmoodfood in Germany...but there are of course other companies which are more in the interest of Fairtrade. What is your turn for a better Situation for the Cacao Farmers & Family 🤔Greetings from Andreas

@veganpotterthevegan

23 күн бұрын

It's been too cheap for over a century

@wisfina

22 күн бұрын

cocoa farmer earn less than 500 usd monthly per hectar recently compare to industries earn millions. what a joke. 😂

@Viertelfranzose

22 күн бұрын

@@wisfina of course you have right in a specific way...but you cant compare apples with bones. You can have the best fruits...the best animals or best cacao....... If you have no one which would buy it!!! Things are never so easy....nut Ghana goes the right way.....and other countrys in Africa will follow that way to make them more independent

Maybe one day when cocoa prices do a 1000X this farmer will be able to afford a fence to prevent his cocoa from being stolen. So sad that selling all your produce exclusively to the wealthy countries doesn't translate to a decent life standard. How come that growing produce for the West in Africa only earns you a fraction of what growing produce for the West in the West earns you?

@vineleak7676

17 күн бұрын

It does not, small scale farmers in the west have been going bankrupt for decades, farmers in Europe have some of the highest suicide rate of any professional group... Just like in Africa, in the west you need alot of land to make a decent living. Only very big farms make alot of money, the rest are in constant debt and barely surviving...

@vineleak7676

17 күн бұрын

Also in Europe many farmers are operating at a loss and only surviving thanks to subsidies...

@RedBlackDish

17 күн бұрын

@@vineleak7676 poor EU farmers! I hope one day they will be able to buy a bed for their wives too. I wish to all EU citizens to start living as people in Afrika. God Bless!

As a non-native speaker, some of the people interviewed were a little difficult to understand and the automated subtitles don't help much either. Would be nice if someone at DW (assuming you have the staff (intern?/s) required and/or already have the written script for the interviews at hand) could write proper English (CC) subtitles for the videos, or at least for the videos where the automated subtitles don't work quite as well. It would also help for people with hearing impairments and those watching in noisy/crowded/public areas.

@sealwheel

23 күн бұрын

i agree, i dont understand why DW hasnt added subtitles yet.

@terra7066

20 күн бұрын

@@sealwheel I'm from Angola a Portuguese speaking country like Guinea-Bissau and on doc about the cashew nut production the farmer says in Portuguese: " During the Portuguese era we had bad years and good depending on the crops and buyers because we had several buyers and could negotiate the price with them but now we can only sell to the government , it is government that makes the price and all years are bad" The voice in English said : "During the Portuguese era we could only sell to the Portuguese , they made the price and we could hardly survive , now we sell to the government , some years are better and some years are worse but at least now every year we make enough to survive". DW has a narrative to follow and what the people they are interviewing are saying doesn't matter.

I'm so pleased for those farmers getting a good price and sorry for those farmers who have been affected by the gold diggers and the tree virus and global warming , but the reason for it is depressing.

@TCN8202

23 күн бұрын

You will not be so pleased when you learn that the price increase is foisted onto you, the chocolate consuner, whether openly, on the price tag, or slyly, through poor quality for the same cost.

@Debbie-henri

23 күн бұрын

Gold, you can only dig out once, but Cocoa trees are gold forever.

@veganpotterthevegan

23 күн бұрын

​@@TCN8202 I've gladly only paid for ethically sourced chocolate for over 25yrs. Unfortunately, this won't really make all that chocolate fair trade chocolate. But plain and simple, chocolate should be expensive

@markrutlidge5427

23 күн бұрын

@@TCN8202 true, but it's a luxury item.

Great video!

Jesus the price of cocoa has increased 5x so finally the farmers can afford a fricking bed for his family. Clearly chocolate needs to increase another 50x so you know maybe the guys doing all the work might be able to afford to live in something other than a tin shack...

@Bennix

17 күн бұрын

I agree

Chocolate tasted better 20 years ago.

@johnnyappleseed79

23 күн бұрын

Really? You know and remember this difference? From what... a Hershey bar? Its the same cocoa bean from 20 years ago. I think you might be making that up to be dramatic. And there are different levels of how chocolate is created to make the final product. Darker, or concentrated. Those are quality standards. Basic candy will not taste any different unless the manufacturers ingredients changed.

@Funkywallot

23 күн бұрын

Everybody´s favourites tasted better 20 years ago pal. Its because you lose taste buds when you get older and it doesent taste the same (Less)

@mitkoogrozev

23 күн бұрын

@@Funkywallot We do indeed lose taste buds. But from what I remember , what people call ''flavor", which is your combined experience from smell and taste, smell is more important. People that lost their taste completely, like people's who's tongues have been cut out, still perceive that they have not lost much of their pleasure from food. But if you lose your smell, the flavor of food tends to be 'bland', people would say.

@RonStochler-oz1qk

23 күн бұрын

I would disagree with that. Have you ever had chocolate from a genuine chocolatier?

@LocalK5000

23 күн бұрын

If it tasted better before its probably because american companies mix their choclates with a lot of other products these days

baffling how food producing professions like farmers and fishermen are suffering in poverty while actors and athletes having the time of their lives when their act at some degree has no value added to most of people. Also baffling when cocoa prices are up all the time but farmer earnings are ridiculously low.

Ha..Ghana only wants their fair share if profits from the gouging Swiss.

It's good ,just look at oil .....

It's a sad fact - monoculture crops invite disaster, same happening to bananas, oranges and olives (and probably other fruits besides). These farmers should be taking on permaculture techniques to help them preserve the water better and give themselves alternative plants to draw income from if conditions are not right for the cocoa beans. But with other plants between cocoa trees, disrases have far less ability to sweep through a crop. I've seen this happen on my own tiny piece of land, where a disease has taken out some apple trees, but others were unaffected since there were plums, cherries, pears, blueberries, amelanchiers, barberries and hazelnut trees separating the two main groups. Dame goes for the cherries suffering prach leaf curl disease and blackcurrants with a rust on the leaves. Break up crops into sections, separate your cash crop with other completely different types of saleable fruits - you're going to sell something. It might not be as profitable as chocolate, but better than a disease ravaged or hard and nothing.

@OsirusHandle

23 күн бұрын

the issue is more within the genetic pool of cocoa; monocultures worst issue it doesnt allow for natural selection. ofc unfortunately sometimes diseases are so lucky there arent any genes to avoid them, but then you can switch to a similar crop which perhaps you were already growing. this + hygiene is the best. only then should you resort to poisons. but... this is way more work. polyculture and landrace breeding is not easier or cheaper than monoculture. in uk we grow mostly wheat because you can just mow it all down, very low labour cost.

tragic to see greed for gold harming cocoa production. rather chocolate than gold.

Prices are actually dropping what are y’all talking about

Are you actually trying to argue that it might not be good for Africans if raw materials they are selling increase in value. Oh my.

Africa and cocoa have always been synonymous. Yet Africans also have to deal with the hardships of new growing challenges. Perhaps one of the biggest challenges will be thieves and international competitors triggered by higher prices. Overall I hope the lives of Africans could improve at least a little from these higher prices.

Yes you tell them my cocoa brother 😂😂😂

I know we could be growing forests of it in Australia.

A big problem with cocoa farmers is that their plots are just to small to really live from them.

Chocolate is nice to have but not necessary... there's plenty of sweets out there.

400 dollars for that bed!!! Can't break it and lasts forever till you die.Great craftsmanship 👌👍🙏🗽🇺🇲😘

@fujin09

23 күн бұрын

İ heard 115

Will Africa be richer from rising cocoa prices, or it is just harmful inflation?

@julianshepherd2038

23 күн бұрын

If you lost your farm or it stopped raining where you are then no.

@Thor.Jorgensen

23 күн бұрын

If your cash crop stops growing? Do you get money from that? A failed harvest is devastating for any economy.

@OsirusHandle

23 күн бұрын

price goes up because the sales go down so theyre all collectively forced to charge more. they make same amount of money

@Thor.Jorgensen

23 күн бұрын

@@OsirusHandle Sales aren't going down. The amount produced is going down due to failed crops. Demand stays the same.

@OsirusHandle

23 күн бұрын

@@Thor.Jorgensen that implies there was excess waste that forced the price lower, no? maybe idk. either way the producer is forced to up the price against their wishes, which also suggests they want the price to be lower to sell more.

África🎊🇷🇺🎉😎

Blessing because need to move away from simply exporting raw resources to value addition and developing the value chains, thus creating jobs. To make this feasible investments is needed in human capital, energy and infrastructure

That"analyst" is likely well vested in "the industry"! Ghana being Paid by "the industry" to Only give 15% increase ! Nationalize Resources !

If the farmers profit, it's fine by me. Not sure if cocoa is essential for pharmaceuticals, but I'm not going to starve just because the cocoa price went up.

make a big union and charge higher

Enter Enter Enter Enter

Increase prices by 100x People will still buy, Chocolate will become luxury again And people will live a healthier lofe by not being able to afford these sugar bombs

@OsirusHandle

23 күн бұрын

the sugar is the cheap bit 😂

@eddastrohmayer251

23 күн бұрын

Don't be cruel, please! 😂 I prefer dark chocolate, need no sugar...

@For3xampleJohn

23 күн бұрын

@@OsirusHandle But it does get expensive in the long run. Guess it'll have to be back to basics. Reduce people then

@OsirusHandle

23 күн бұрын

@@For3xampleJohn most european sugar comes from european sugar beets

Come to Uganda 🇺🇬 for good quality cocoa

Everybody wants to eat chocolate?

@Thor.Jorgensen

23 күн бұрын

Is that something that hasn't been the case in the past 400 years, genius? Didn't anyone want to eat chocolate 10 years ago?

@urbansenicar81

23 күн бұрын

@@Thor.Jorgensen Nah. We're much fatter now.

@Thor.Jorgensen

23 күн бұрын

@@urbansenicar81 I don't think McDonalds or Domino's Pizza put much chocolate in their main courses. Correlation and causation.

@urbansenicar81

23 күн бұрын

@@Thor.Jorgensen No. I mean we have a greater capacity now.

sell the news... done

We already made memes with the previous upload🤣

@Dongle3000ccm

23 күн бұрын

you and your mum?

1100

0110

Keep your choco. Who cares.

They're not lining their pockets with my money, that's for sure. I got reflux issues and theobromine in chocolate makes it a lot worse so I've ditched chocolate a decade ago. I don't really miss it either.

African farmers: Cocoa prices soaring, need more money... American buyer: Need more money? We print money!

@matiasmazzo2938

23 күн бұрын

Chinese bot

@julianshepherd2038

23 күн бұрын

Americans blame Joe Biden. They don't understand markets.

@eddastrohmayer251

23 күн бұрын

​​@@matiasmazzo2938 Why? It's true.

We in Western Africa need to BAN the export of cocoa and cocoa seeds immediately. Production and value addition should only happen in Africa then the products can be exported.

There is no chocolate grow in belgin or swiss, eat that now you begging for them

Without coco, chocolate is a no-go. Thumbs up.

What’s causing the disease? Sabotage ?

0000

When the government sets the price. It keeps farmers poor. All part of the plan I’m sure while middle men scoop up the profits.

Criminal leadership of Ghanaian mafia by nana Addo. Ghana is going from hero of Africa to zero.

Virus protection

What's behind the rise in chocolate prices? We are. Human-induced climate change is impacting all agriculture significantly.

@OsirusHandle

23 күн бұрын

no its mostly blight, same genus as potato blight a kind of fungus-relative. the gene pool people planted has no resistances

This host is the worst….

I hate chocolate, I could care less

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