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Episode Overview

This episode continues the thread of most of the LIVEs over the previous weeks: When looking at issues related to quality and ethics and barriers to meaningful change, one word keeps coming up over and over and over again ...

Following are some of the topics that will be covered in this episode:

• What is meant by “transparency?”
• When might transparency not actually be transparent?
• What is the connection (is there a connection?) between transparency and traceability?
• Can we trust statistics?
• How do we vet statistics? (AKA, “How to be a good skeptic.”)

The idea for this episode came to me as I was thinking about the following post on LinkedIn:

Sharon Terenzi on LinkedIn: Global cocoa production is expected to reach over 5 million tons in the… | 20 comments

Global cocoa production is expected to reach over 5 million tons in the 2022/2023 crop year. Here are some of the major players in the chocolate market that… | 20 comments on LinkedIn

LinkedInSharon Terenzi

Resources That Will Be Discussed In This Episode

Other Resources

The Top Cocoa Producing Countries In The World

The cocoa beans serve as the main ingredients for making chocolates and many Mesoamerican foods. The following article discusses the top 10 cocoa-producing countries in the world.

WorldAtlasDiptarka Ghosh

FAOSTAT

FAOSTAT provides free access to food and agriculture data for over 245 countries and territories and covers all FAO regional groupings from 1961 to the most recent year available.

International Cocoa Organization - Statistics

The Statistics Section carries out various studies on the cocoa market, some of which can be found on the statistics web page: daily cocoa prices, monthly averages, market reports

International Cocoa Organization

Cocoa Historical Prices - Barchart.com

Historical price quotes for Cocoa futures, going back to circa 1980, with latest news and charts.

Barchart.com

USD Historical Exchange Rates (US Dollar) - X-Rates

Get historic exchange rates for past US Dollar foreign expenses. Select your currencies and the date to get histroical rate tables.

xrates logo

2022 Commodity Focus: Cocoa

2022 Commodity Focus: Cocoa

Chocolate makers report slow down of production as margins become squeezed by inflation

Cocoa bean processing in North America has slumped almost 12% in the second quarter, according to figures released by the National Confectioners Association, the lowest in almost 15 years for that period, while in Europe and Asia, factories ground the least cocoa since the beginning of the global pa…

confectionerynews.comAnthony Myers

Cocoa | Equal Profit

Equal Profit

Transparent Trade — Uncommon Cacao | Wholesale Cocoa Beans

Uncommon Cacao is disrupting the global cacao market as the first Transparent Trade cacoa supply chain company. Transparent Trade is verifiable, published pricing for every transaction related to a cacao purchase along the supply chain.

Uncommon Cacao | Wholesale Cocoa Beans

TheChocolateLifeLIVE – Deconstructing the 2023 Chocolate Scorecard

TheChocolateLifeLIVE resumes from its new home in Central Arizona on Friday, April 21st, from 12:00~13:00 EDT (09:00~10:00 PDT).

The Chocolate LifeClay Gordon

UPDATED – TheChocolateLife :: LIVE – Constructing Transparent Transparency Reports

Episode 40 streams LIVE worldwide from Brooklyn, NY starting at 12:00 EDT on Tuesday, May 10th.

The Chocolate LifeTheChocolateWire

UPDATED: TheChocolateLife :: LIVE – Deconstructing “Transparency” Reports

Episode 39 streams LIVE worldwide from Brooklyn, NY from 12:00 EDT on Friday, May 6th.

The Chocolate LifeTheChocolateWire

TheChocolateLifeLIVE | Exploring the FCIA Glossary

Episode 125 of #TheChocolateLifeLIVE is LIVE from 10:00 AM PDT / 1:00 PM EDT on Fri, July 21st.

The Chocolate LifeTheChocolateWire

Industry Standards - Fine Chocolate Industry Association

FCIA’s members uphold the code of ethics and industry standards to craft natural fine chocolate products with incredible taste sensations and aromas.

Fine Chocolate Industry Association

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