It adds up... if you Follow really science.... cut down trees call it climate change.. steel from the richest continent call it capitalism which it is not... is past oligarchy and a .caste system... that they would love for he rest of the world to be under...

Colonialism in a nutshell

Crony capitalism

@@arkajitmaity5277 primary product dependency in a nutshell?

Our leaders are stupid

This hit hard. Really sad.

@@ivishnukn Big lie, but nice catch message.

@@PropsZen why is it a lie??

@@lahain01 Because They do use Chocolate a Lot in their food and drinks

@@dongshengdi773 You got your head stuck in the sand.

Europe have an advantage in expertise and brands/marketing/perception that can only be gained by time in the industry.

The whole point is to benefit the farmer, not wealthy Indonesian chocolate factories making the end product. Indonesia is very corrupt and the poor will remain poor because of it.

Silver-queen is local brand and very famous and delicious, throwing the competitor out of water( Cadbury), i think the problem is lack of differentiate brand and application, indonesian likes chocolate , but as a snack not in a desert or meal or something that we daily consume... That's why exporting the raw materials is much more compelling bc lack of demand of local market, we of course could produce the end finished product but who's gonna buy if it is not labeled as belgian or swis

@@cobaltblue2756 masuk akal di malaysia ada bbrp perusahaan produk coklat salah satunya adalah cadbury ferrero roche juga di malaysia jadi di batam itu ada pt asia cocoa indonesia - invest dr malaysia dan spore cmiiw mereka dapat pasokan dr biji cacao seluruh indonesia produk mereka banyak, dari powder dg beragam kadar, oil, butter bahkan cangkang biji cacao pun dijual utk konsumsi sehari hari coklat masih belum bisa mengalahkan air putih, teh dan kopi cmiiw

@@cobaltblue2756 oya, saya biasanya beli sq ketimbang cadbury krn cadbury banyakan susu ketimbang coklatnya mana gampang lumer dan lengket

I think it is more likely the governments are skimming the profits off the top, given the levels of corruption in developing nations. I can't imagine they are actually helping individual farmers in a meaningful way.

@@MrNapoleon1801 European countries do worse to Africans.

@@MrNapoleon1801 I'm a cynical in a different way from you. The corporations will get the US to meddle, the region will magically have rebels and overthrow the government and suddenly the corporations are getting cocoa super cheap again.

governments are not doing anything effective. A very simple move any government can do is open up commodity market. Currently, cocoa can only be sold to licensed people whose incentive is to decrease prices. Just setting up a commodity market that allows speculators to buy would increase cocoa seed prices.

The govt setting prices is never helpful. They should use the money instead to educate and modernize the cocoa farmers - but they'll never do that because it will become harder for them to pull the strings.

Read about the imf and what they do, The purpose of a military conquest is to take control of foreign economies, to take control of their land and impose tribute. The genius of the World Bank was to recognize that it’s not necessary to occupy a country in order to impose tribute, or to take over its industry, agriculture and land. Instead of bullets, it uses financial maneuvering. As long as other countries play an artificial economic game that U.S. diplomacy can control, finance is able to achieve today what used to require bombing and loss of life by soldiers. One constant of American foreign policy is to make other countries dependent on American grain exports and food exports. The aim is to buttress America’s agricultural trade surplus. So the first thing that the World Bank has done is not to make any domestic currency loans to help food producers. Its lending has steered client countries to produce tropical export crops, mainly plantation crops that cannot be grown in the United States. Focusing on export crops leads client countries to become dependent on American farmers - and political sanctions The idea is that if you can make other countries export plantation crops, the oversupply will drive down prices for cocoa and other tropical products, and they won’t feed themselves. So instead of backing family farms like the American agricultural policy does, the World Bank backed plantation agriculture. In Chile, which has the highest natural supply of fertilizer in the world from its guano deposits, exports guano instead of using it domestically. It also has the most unequal land distribution, blocking it from growing its own grain or food crops. It’s completely dependent on the United States for this, and it pays by exporting copper, guano and other natural resources. The idea is to create interdependency - one-sided dependency on the U.S. economy. The United States has always aimed at being self-sufficient in its own essentials, so that no other country can pull the plug on our economy and say, “We’re going to starve you by not feeding you.” Americans can feed themselves. Other countries can’t say, “We’re going to let you freeze in the dark by not sending you oil,” because America’s independent in energy. But America can use the oil control to make other countries freeze in the dark, and it can starve other countries by food-export sanctions.

All while doing it under a caste system, cartels and proxy war.... very very hard working and strong spirited people.... the suppression is real...

I live in Europe and I’d gladly buy the finished product made in Africa

Exports are another way of economic control. We should instead be thinking about how we take care of our needs without destroying our land, resources and selling out our people's labour to satisfy the needs of the East and West.

Genuinely asking: Do Ghana and Ivory Coast have stable governments with robust property rights and a robust court system? Capital (aka manufacturing) tends to avoid locations without those characteristics.

Ghana has been independent for over 5 decade so why haven't they stop and grow more essential crops?

China by aiding and abetting the corruptions which plagues the african nations on a governmental level. thank you china. Silence Wumao

@@henryeghaghara9385 Well, after their independence, they had a leader who actually cared for their peoplee, the price of cocoa increased to triple of the original price, those revenues were taken by the government through levies and invested to various development projects but then the UK and the US came and supported a coup against him. He was replaced by a pro western government who did the opposite of him, they moved those money from infrastructure investment and agriculture development to the military and privatized those infrastructure projects and state owned enterprises and abandoning a lot of things. The government done a lot of things to favour the foreign government and allowing corporations to exploit their lands. Ghana then experienced a lot of coups after that

@@henryeghaghara9385 I do not know a lot about the history of Ghana after independence. However, in neighbouring French former colonies, France has maintained its influence through the CFA currency and the so-called Françafrique corrupted network of politicians and businessmen.

@@abdourahmanealkhalifa191 Britain doesnt have much influence in Ghana but the politicians are just corrupt and useless just like across africa.. Ghana has gold yet shes been cheated off her gold She has manganese the chinese are stealing that in broad day light Oh she discovered a subtantial oil deposit, the Europeans makes 80% of all the profit from her oil... I can go on and on...the crazy thing is you can say this about every african country

Actually, Europe has done enough helping. Everyone should just let Africa do their own thing

@@sodaa2489 Europe has done NOTHING for Africa. They destroyed Africa. There was great infrastructure in Africa before white folks came.

We don't need Europeans to help us, we need to help ourselves. It's not rocket science to process cocoa. Demand higher prices! Why do our people have so little self confidence?

The greedy evil French government actually steals their currency too, Ivory Coast like many west African countries use “West African CFA franc” which basically means they print their notes & control their banking system.. French colonists are the worst of them all, this is beyond evil & totally unjustified yet somehow French ppl brag about their culture of liberty & justice such hypocritical nation .. I hope the young French generation wake up & have some humane morality & stop looting + spreading wars in these beautiful lands

They did that. Europe responded by banning chocolate all together. European Union are now producing fake lab grown chocolate.

I think the challenge is to produce a product that can be marketed in Europe. It is not enough to build a factory. You also have to convince the consumer. I think that Fairafric is doing the right thing, focusing on ecofriendly biodynamic chocolate to break in to the European market.

You’re only supporting the rich african businessmen who also don’t pay the farmer. Farmer doesn’t see that money you pay.

@@TheBooban i rather do that then

It is going to the manufacturers which are not in Africa but in Europe and eventually into the profits of nestle, which is the largest buyer of cocoa in the world.

@@Brockza That's specifically not the case though, the manufacturers are the ones paying the commodity price of $800-$1000/ton. Someone is gouging the farmers hard, Between Nestle and the farmers.

@@KaiSellgren People are not naive. You make assumptions and don't listen. You seem to forget that's why Ghana said they will no longer sell cocoa to Europe and will manufacture their own chocolate on a larger scale. Ghana could import milk from India, EU and USA. It would make them more money by selling chocolate as a finished product than just selling cocoa.

There's something called the imf, look them up they have no choice but to be slaves for the rest of their lives thanks to the imf and the sanctions they will face if they try to stand up for themselves against the imperialists

60 to 70 percentage

This is how it works, imf forces poor countries to open markets Cheap us food, floods in bankrupting all the farmers Us megacorps buy all the small farms and use them to plant cash crops like cocoa to make chocolate Us megacorps lower wages to starvation level This country is now pretty much forever enslaved, any attempt to fight back means Us cuts off the food and they starve

It's a recurring theme though that western countries take advantage of these poor African nations for their raw material. And when the government does do something to improve their citizens lives, western government create a coup to overthrow that government.

They could easily raise prices since they control the entire supply. It is because of their own corruption and not colonialism.

Incredible? More like incredibly sad

It's kinda too hot there to have chocolate readily available, it would be melted

I humbly refuse to give a response to ignorance

How was the chocolate?

@@anotherelvis 7 out of 10.

Great problem is that Africans aren't getting a cut of that because of the lack of investment in machinery that is needed to process the cocoa

@@gidd yes, but it doesn’t matter. The owners of those machines will cheat the farmers anyways, even if they are African. And it’s unnecessary to invest in all of that. Just buy shares in Hersheys and Nestle.

Who told you that there is no demand for chocolate in Africa. You must be among those that think Africa countries are just full of trees and people live on trees. That's not the reality.

@@perrymiguel7515 Demand created market right? You have your economics twisted! Why aren't we exporting corn, or maize? It's because the local demand is high to a point we import even more. Now get back to class and study Econ 101!

As the video said, 2 countries produce 70% of the worlds cocoa. It's not like chocolate companies would have a choice not to buy their product. Unless they wanna stop making chocolate.

This isn’t “CaPiTaLiSMs” fault. It’s ineffective governance and corruption. It’s also due to the effects of the colonial era.

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The LID, which they implemented and discuss in this doc, is a similar measure.

Buy products with the "The FAIRTRADE Mark" to ensure that farmers get their share.

Eat dark chocolate or raw chocolate called Cacao

How would that help the farmers? They would still be selling raw materials at the global market price. Is China ready to buy finished goods from Ghana?

Nigeria was never number one. Go and check. Infact in the 60's Nigeria use to be number three. That's after Brazil and Ghana.

@@johnsonamoni6382 keep quiet you know nothing

Coz the people in the farms have no idea on what happens to the cocoa beans they sell to the middle men or the government. They don't have the whole picture, they only know they are poor from farming coco