February 2026 News & AMA | #PSC 180
OVERVIEW: Episode 180 of #PodSaveChocolate features chocolate and cocoa news fit to eat, as well as the monthly live AMA (Ask Me Anything about chocolate or cocoa) for February 2026.
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Episode 180 Overview
In this episode: News that’s fit to eat for January, 2026!
Topics lined up to be covered include ...
The Ongoing Saga of the Cost of Cocoa
| MARKETS |
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| Futures Prices / Futures Overview – Barchart.com |
| Graph – Trading Economics |
| ICCO Pricing Stats |
| Reality Check: Here is an uncomfortable number [...]: for every tonne of cocoa that leaves West Africa, an estimated €4,400 in value is destroyed, extracted, or left on the table by a supply chain that has barely changed in decades. That is more than the bean itself is worth at current FOB prices. Not all of that is recoverable. But a significant portion of it, perhaps half, is being lost to failures that are structural, not inevitable. • Poor fermentation. • Opaque intermediaries. • Seasonal operations that leave factories idle and pods rotting on trees for months at a time. • A traceability gap that the EUDR is about to make obvious. These are not new complaints. What is new is that we are not accepting it as inevitable and built an operational model that demonstrates what the value chain looks like when you actually fix the plumbing. — Source: Cocoa Radar |
More News
| TL;DR? | browsing headlines |
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| The Future? | ... of Chocolate: Webinar Response |
| The Future | ... Focus on the Future of Callebaut |
Future Episodes
An interview with Terry Collingsworth (International Rights Advocates) about updates to lawsuits aimed at holding Big Chocolate accountable for human rights violations in W Africa.
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