{"id":1069,"date":"2008-08-22T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/high-cocoa-prices-record-levels\/"},"modified":"2018-05-18T00:31:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T00:31:46","slug":"high-cocoa-prices-record-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/high-cocoa-prices-record-levels.html","title":{"rendered":"High Cocoa Prices: Record Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bullish market is predicted with high prices overall. <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.moneycentral.msn.com\/Investing\/Dispatch\/WorldChocolateShortageAhead.aspx?GT1=9215\">West African crops are reported down <\/a>and consumers could end up paying more as a result. Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irinnews.org\/Report.aspx?ReportId=76798\">child labor exploitation<\/a> is still a huge problem for the cocoa producing regions which could also bring up prices, even with the voluntary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cocoainitiative.org\/ici\/reference-documents\/harkin-engel-protocol.html\">Harkin-Engel Protocol<\/a>, named after the people who passed it: <a href=\"http:\/\/harkin.senate.gov\/pr\/p.cfm?i=286485\">Senator Tom Harkin and Congressman Eliot Engel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While aprox. 3\/4 of the total cocoa crop comes from Africa, about 40% of the world&#8217;s cocoa crop comes from Cote D&#8217;Ivoire. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/ei\/bgn\/2846.htm\">Info from the US State Department on that African region<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Renee Shelton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bullish market is predicted with high prices overall. West African crops are reported down and consumers could end up paying more as a result. Also, child labor exploitation is still a huge problem for the cocoa producing regions which could also bring up prices,&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/high-cocoa-prices-record-levels.html\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[271],"tags":[13,283,280],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p86M9B-hf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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