Around the World in Eight Commodities delves into some of the planet’s most critical commodities, exploring the complex challenges they face and the innovative solutions being implemented around the globe.

In this episode, we take a closer look at cocoa, one of the top 10 most traded commodities in the world. It’s most famously consumed as chocolate, but it’s also used in everything from cosmetics to alternative medicine, and it plays a vital role in many spiritual rituals in South and Central America.

Featuring:

• Mawuli Coffie, country director, World Cocoa Foundation, Ghana
• Robert Yapo, agricultural economist, Côte d'Ivoire
• Hannah Ward, director of environment, World Cocoa Foundation
• Solomon Charles Kalon, monitoring, evaluation, and learning manager, GEF/FOLUR, Liberia
• Isaac Charles Acquah, Environmental Protection Agency, Ghana