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Markets in Action - Cocoa Price Volatility

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A-Level, BTEC National, BTEC Tech Award, IB Diploma
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AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, IB, OCR, WJEC

Last updated 2 Nov 2020

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In this video we focus on the cocoa market to look at demand and supply factors that make global cocoa prices especially volatile from month to month and year-to-year.

Global cocoa production has been on a long term rising trend but the long run sustainability of the industry is under threat not least from the impact of climate change but also the risk that a younger generation of people in cocoa growing countries will decide that the economic incentives to grow cocoa beans are just not strong enough.

Markets in Action: Cocoa Price Volatility
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