Biohazards, Putin, extremism… we’ll need more than a few tins of beans | Martha Gill
a2pm: People told to stock up on batteries and bottled water. 5pm: A general election called. Who drew up this timeline? What a contrast: 14 years of Conservative government and a country filling its food shelves with emergency baked beans. But listen to Oliver Dowden’s “resilience” speech at the London Defence Conference on Wednesday, which […]
Chocolate prices likely to soar as African cocoa processing plants can’t afford to buy beans
LONDON/ACCRA — Major cocoa factories in Africa’s Ivory Coast and Ghana are halting or reducing processing because they can’t afford to buy the beans, four trade officials said. This means chocolate prices around the world could rise. Chocolate makers have already raised prices for consumers in both countries, which produce nearly 60% of the world’s […]