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How high gold prices are fueling a chocolate shortage

2025/3/19
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Behind the Money

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The surging price of gold is leading to some unexpected outcomes. The FT’s Aanu Adeoye traveled to Ghana to see how this is playing out** **among two of the country’s top commodities: gold and cocoa. Aanu and the FT’s Susannah Savage explain how the two commodities are linked and how it is impacting the people who live in the country.  

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For further reading:

How illegal gold mining is fuelling a chocolate shortage)

Food groups develop a taste for cocoa alternatives)

From London to New York via Switzerland: the booming trade in gold bars)

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