A recent Financial Times podcast explores the surprising relationship between skyrocketing gold prices and chocolate shortages.
FT journalist Aanu Adeoye visited Ghana—a country that is a major producer of both gold and cocoa—to investigate this connection firsthand.
The reporting, discussed with FT’s Susannah Savage, reveals how the gold boom is drawing agricultural workers away from cocoa farms and encouraging land conversion from agriculture to mining.
This shift is significantly reducing cocoa harvests in Ghana, one of the world’s largest producers, and contributing to global chocolate shortages. Ties.