Well over the world's half cocoa will grow in Cote d' Ivoire and Ghana, A study of cocoa plantations in Cote d' Ivoire and Ghana have found that by 2050 the average for production of cocoa could reduce by 50 percent owing to a temperature increase of just 2.3 degrees Celsius.
Peter Laderach The International Centre for Tropical Agriculture said that chocolate will surely becomes costly if demand persists to increase as the shortage of cocoa begins only with climatic changes and surely one day chocolates will be expensive.
Recent political upheavals in West Africa have already pushed up the price by 10 percent on the trading floor to almost 2,000 pounds per tonne, the Telegraph reports.
Higher demand and shortages due to climate change will push up the price further, eventually forcing retailers to put up the price of chocolate bars, said the study commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Cadbury and Nestlé have recently pushed up the recommended retail price of top-selling confectionery in Britain such as Dairy Milk, Wispa, Kit Kat and Yorkie by up to seven percent - more than double the rate of inflation.
In order to increase Cocoa trees it requires a very cool climate and could be moved more up into higher land since West Africa is somewhat flat and the possible for Cocoa is looking confined.As because of the climate change the other products like French wine and Italian pasta have been affected.
