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silenced traps due to harness and the balance of service out of new positions. a election was neither easy nor fair to speak to an expert and finding solutions to some of the world's biggest problems. experts to printers and decision makers needs here and valid. i talked to the problem solver from come are trying to address the challenges in his country. the i, i'm eddie mike, a junior and you welcome to the program. west africa is king. when it comes to cocoa, the entire world has a love affair with chocolate and without cocoa chalk late as a no go. african nations dominates the global coal, coal trade with co did y gonna come room and nigeria producing 70 percent of the

cocoa beans consumed globally. but that taste for chuck late is proven and expensive habits. and some, obviously, the price of the sweet stuff may soon be twice what it was, because the cost of the raw material is only going off. what's the price of a ton of cocoa has increased almost $5.00 fold, says lates 2023. so how does that compare to our objects of desire? say, michael trips says this top of the coco prizes have you been out for the fall and says in the welds need and compute that's a giant in video. so what's driving price is so high. take a look up gonna the wealth, 2nd largest producer facing the catastrophic harvest in the deepening coal coal crisis. but use us, i've seen a wave will be legal, gold mining, wiping out the trees, with many deciding just to sell the applause. climate change is also doing it's done. it's got

a house last it's cool. cool. forecast this. yeah. because of all to dry a web that's boost in one thing. the cool, cool industries equivalent of the cold with and then it was a viral disease that ruins you before it kills the trees completely. all right, so if the cheese i'd be a fed totaling for told by this, if i read this is it retains the ability to best fast let the long have in foods on it. so it's not coming. it need therefore, so with that, we are also using, supporting the national code that on the account would be that we supply into the system in the process. it cost enough kind of room. as i protested, said largest cocoa producer, and one form of asset cocoa season is a season of cash. cocoa provides about 90 percent of the income for rural communities involved in this production. the use of lazy, young spoke to

a family in the village of low income ruins, literal region, who is tenant his cash crop into consumer goods. still a quick dozen jelly fact has come to a local furniture shop to spend the prophets from his last cook will be in sale. he's checking on the focus of a new bit, his oldest, while his wife thought that it's costing him 70000 francs. i don't know, $115.00. that's about twice the multi $1000001.00, which income would be and it was not. he's not like, yes is it because then that was the 70000, but increasing. cool. cool. yeah. this, you know, on that is what i have. so you can say over the posse. yeah. the small who does to heck that cool plantation here in the

visual bloom has brought in 5 time more money than the ever did before. cameras, google prizes went off dramatically. after have his slumber include the war and gone, this is motivated him in court that is cleaning his form in preparation for the next. how the season seems the price has gone up. he has read the notes. he tells me a lot because uh i've sold out so quick. wow, so much cool, cool man. that i've had to increase my income and even like increase my son, that the stuff that i'm living in the night and then the end of august in buckle. so we are like looking for some manuals, like creating some uh, some hoops to like wanting to monitoring the roots,

coming from the sun. like to reduce its they've got our purple and no funds. many farmers have given up green, cool, cool, because of high production costs. low incomes. now they're coming back, some lighting quinta, outlets in new trees and hope that the cook will remain across the vincent gosh. joining me now is christie last week. reset to all 5 consultants in the coal, coal on chocolate industries. welcome to the program. christy. now we've just seen pharmacy in cameroon benefits and from the sar and global price of cocoa binding, gonna coco farm is, are struggling. what's causing this difference? i think a few things are causing the difference. so one is, is definitely a price related issue. so in gonna the producers, the farmers operate on a fixed price market, which means that the price that they receive for their cocoa is set by the government. and while the government did raise the price that they received,

you know, thanks to the sky, rocketing google prices globally. they raised it by 50 percent, which is a significant increase in producer price. that it's still, you know, it is still limited to that amount. and so even if the global market price for to go up higher, i doubt that it wouldn't even if it, if it were to happen, the farmers would still be receiving that, that price for their cocoa. so they are limited in terms of the, the year um, their income because of the price setting by the government. hm. uh, so what stopping the guardian government from macon farm is benefit from the high prizes also, or yeah, so that's a great question. answer again. they did raise the producer price and they raised it by 50 percent, which is really big increase. but i think what's stopping them from raising the price higher is the government government through their, their marketing boards on a couple board. i'm think of a lot of work to protect and support their crop. and so i'm gonna,

these are known globally to be the highest quality, bulk cook abuse on the market because the farmers know how to from it. there beings very well they know how to drive them very well. the flavor of gone and cocoa is essentially the flavor of chocolate as we know it. and so, you know, kind of cool born has to work really hard to protect that reputation and protect the quality of their crop. and that's just money. so, you know, there is a portion of, of their coco exports that they, they retain that, that the proceeds from not in order to do this work of protecting and maintaining their national supply and quite to balance in knoxville. unfortunately, it's the firm is that are struggling and you know, really getting the benefit from this, this overall high demand for co cool about factors like climate change is affecting production, decrease and supply, which makes it more expensive. so how long come to find my uncomfortable and for instance, benefit from, from this situation where you know, the costs of the high prices, they are making money from it or build benefit as long as the supply scenario last

and we are in a really dramatic moment in terms of local supply, so i was in kind of a few weeks ago and the farmers i spoke with there were harvesting about a 3rd of their normal a harvest. and so that is a really, really dramatic fall in, in cocoa supply. and that is due to a number of factors, you know, the climate change being a big one, the only annual cycle that we're currently in causing drought conditions in west africa. another big one. but of course, you know, the, all of these conditions add up to a market where you have a really high prices. so i think that the farmers and cameron will benefit as long as we see this really constrained supply scenario. but at the same time, if they also are experiencing the same kind of a 3rd or half of their normal harvest, of course, they're only earning those higher prices on much less crop. so,

so there's only the equations to take into account. how much are you growing and multiply that by the price? and so it's a very good market situation. yeah, definitely. sounds that complicated. i mean so, so we know the challenge, what can be down urgently to address the challenges and try to tie, turn things around to it. that is such a great question. and i think it's the question that's been kind of hanging over the critical industry for many years now because there is no substitute for coco we . we have some initiative as now to create talk as far as using other kinds of things. i'm not nationally bronco countries, but generally uh there is no other substitute that we have. so i think if, if the, the chocolate industry wants to protect their product, which is beloved around the world, then they need to be some serious attention to improving farmer livelihoods. and that probably is going to come with a supply chain analysis that moves more money to the farmers in whatever

way that needs to happen. because of course, corporate doesn't just fly from a farm, you know, into a chocolate factory. there's many, many middle man and treaters in between who all have to stay in business as well. they all need to take their kite, but we need a serious um, you know, re evaluation of how many moves do the supply chain and how we can concentrate more of those financial resources of the farmer end. right. christy. lastly, visa to all of our consultants in nicole and chocolate industries. thank you very much for your time. i what a pleasure to thank you. is chad at democracy or dynasty? the people of the country cost the balance on may 6th, the fast presidential election. so as a wave of close head advocates, the whole region, the boot comes 3 years after chaps, currants, military lead, i came to office, how am i to be ceased pa,

in 2021. after rebels killed his long ruling father and the son has been, had ultimately trigo into since then. when a forced out general to the hell, you promised the hand back power to the civilian government within 18 months. but he did not trigger in violent protests when he extended his entering the presidency in 2022 last year child held ever for random on a new constitution, which the homes i said would be a key step towards the beginning go on democracy. the physician says it pay for the wait for the b to cement his grip on power. much like the current election. critics argue, davies. main arrival. yeah, yeah. deal with shot dead in an army assault on his policies. headquarters in february human rights. what says he was killed point blank with a single bullets to the head. these main surviving arrival is success myself. an organizer or the 22 into 2 tests, who have slept to ex, adding the seat in january,

in a surprise twist to be granted him on an s t and appointed him prime minister is spots . he says his supporters have been intimidated and his own puts on disadvantages. but critics of the visa master is just the student and the election just to show, guaranteeing the add to the to remains in power and leaving little real choice for chad young voters. from all invest, let's bring in a little late o g wiley. he's a political analyst and an expert on this the whole region. what is that seemed for security studies in the car. hello and welcome to the program. so chad has held elections by the entire room. president is the son of the old president. his main arrival was gone down and he invited his arrival to take part. is this really democratic? thank you so much for having me. this is 5 home. um, once we type, once he does that includes the bind transfer and then we'll proceed. and i think

where we are, how getting tax and isaac padia, democrats and process, particularly the letter of from a mix of that task out in we do. we use also the data for content. we're not has we got to march. he's also the home pyre of the entire process. and what is the last become brought the homepage of the legs and the worst dash the we are the, the main number of the show you the data was removed off to you in the past few weeks. so i think it's just the little bands. i mean get error on tests and it gives it as, yeah. so, so put himself on the bottles. and how big of a problem is that this is the problem for charge and pops up in time that the movers in the face, that the people maybe for the quest for peace because that you know, days and we,

we just give me just one piece and they don't maybe the hall in the past i have which is i've been into media now. i guess. okay, let those just for the licks and like what do you use to describe dress a piece. so i think that's the number one thing because it pulled out to be we're not vegas hall then in the recess. so between i see mentioned last speak english, but these are b good. we do not in any case and saying i, let's say you just brought a model infringing twins in the last 3 years. the whole bed that's been created straight from model to this data ball for the sake of these. and obviously a little just leave me a nice afternoon, sandra saw her so, licks and democratic process. i will take place in my book, you know, fossil, i didn't need to ask some points. we don't know how we or how long next good to be . but like i said, we are targeted sci fi not exceed, we've got to predict what is going to happen. i think we'll just be learning chuck

nice. going to be the glue that we're going to slide into this country when you've reached the milestone for democratic privacy. so what do i mean by just opposed to show we be negligible or maybe the voice we also we, i've tried to, i mean be taken out to be a time then. i mean in terms of maybe come across the. ready practicing beats, and in the election, regardless of the degrees, that's what makes sure that's what we watch sports. but once it's more, it's more geometry these that's where i'm going to see a situation in which the trustees sort of process is going to got to have less than to do, maybe change in time. it's such a way that they also want to use the water points they. we knew both of them save on the bottles and at the same time, the timing out the winter when the next. so yeah, attack is due to the time being added. very good. i mean from, from, from what you say and how you're describing it, this sort of spells do for the region as you say, sort of a playbook where you can just take power,

hold elections and remaining power. that's. and that's, that's not the way you know. we expect it to go. is it easy for the one to do right. want to use what is going on now is completely briggs i just to see to mike and he said that some people because they have access to be gone. remove democrats academy. let me just, i mean, boys themselves and then most the democratic transitions. and we do know that by sam is in the rest of these because they're coming into power source solution. now i'm very, you know, develop our supervisor e cause it to some the referendum in which it will just sit on the bottle and doing deep or nothing. i find it seem to go into the even less of my life music was in cambridge. wheaton street was said to be at tours, democrats, and called asked you to do the quantities of never. ready the somebody knew some or

something which i was about to be honest because i mean, does like a trade, you know, needs like you have 2 jobs who have the doors on all these days. but because they have access to the gone, this, these are, and then they need why be boxed democratic process. that is what we know what's going to happen. but what does that mean? and jack is not the person. i would have to say. the call is been is the right way . what do i need from the sensory for security studies? thank you very much. i thank you so much. so i'll have him here in bed in the global solutions i'm, it's takes place. honestly, it's an international conference studies to find solutions to some of the biggest problems we are facing in the world today. address plenty of experts from the think tanks, governance business on civil society assignments also invites young people from all over the world. who wants to solve an acute problem with a concrete idea,

you'll get one of them as a young man from kind of come to me. you can fuck more forward is needed as founded . i'm association called 3 east africa. the 3 e stand for education. what holman, and eco friend, and that seems like there's a clip from his organization. so i really want to see the baby was maybe europe, europe, news owns make a difference here in the country to come in. he says he has too much potential together because really make it and also contribute. we can be a big movement. we could create sustainable structures from the beginning and adjust the challenges and advocates. so wow. to make advocate most of

the so that was very inspiring slips from your organization. come to me, kind of fuck, wonderful welcome. thank you for having me. yeah, i mean, 1st question is really straightforward. what inspired you to sets up 3 east for africa? i think when i, when i move to germany for my studies, a couple of years back when i arrived the 1st question i asked my service, what can i do immediately? you know, young, new experience just at the beginning. my says, what can i do right now? to create impact and kind of win, which is why i come from. and that's kind of like where, you know, the energy came from. and when i look at the problem, when you look at the development corporation aspect, the jimmy or the dynamics between germany and african countries, you see that on a talk to targeting base deployment corporation is, is more of time is just the image of the content. because it's about, let's portray the negative image of other continents, you know, into the typical sphere with typical image. just let me know. and let's step into

kind of like, you know, provide a solutions to these particular problems. but that's not all what i face about. and then i can concern about, so we wanted to increase profit. we wanted to kind of like change the way development corporation actually happened. some stuff. so really deep. i have to tell you, i've been asking myself the same question. what is africa? is it the same and up over to diseases that we see on the screen all the time? so it's a reading and spider already from, from what you've said. how exactly is your association do trying to find solutions or tackle these challenges that you use? that great question. i mean there are 2, there are 2 possible with the 1st part and that's something that was very important for me. because before finding the association, i was, you know, i'll talk to and all that. and joe was, and i realized that in these and he was doing not many of the half projects in africa, but not many of them are africans. so when we found a preschool advocate, we were like, we want this to be an organization that has an african identity. so we're an african taskbar organization, right? so 70 to 80 percent of all the members of the organization of african descent born

. you are born with the constant like myself, and that is the very 1st but so we understand that tonnage is on the customer because that's ex students. them, you know, individually or through our parents. but also we understand a control context. the 2nd aspect of this is we don't initiate projects, right? we increase for africa. what we're saying is the students come to us, we tell the students, we really believe that because you are experts of the china interesting phase every single day. and you should be the one to bring the solutions. so the students come to us and propose a different solutions. and all we do is we support them by giving them a the visibility for writing and changing the email, dropped the content very important and be providing them with the funding so that they can actually implement the different i just idea that they have great. what are some of the main challenges that you've come across that you helping to? so i would say, um, i would say acceptance. i feel like when they didn't looking at the german new development corporation landscape in germany, it's hard to talk to spun sauce. and people that you know,

that make donations. and from the angle of we want to invest in the innovative mines on the african continent. people are still used to only want to come back, poverty wants to come, but other things, and i must think these are not important. they're very important. but that cannot be the only way we see or conflict with the continental. oh, so there was a little bit of, of a challenge to, you know, to, to have that acceptance of seem to constantly different light. right? i mean, because what fascinates me, you, if you are a full time students here in germany, right. you have, i understand some sort of student jo, both or decide and your running, 3 east for africa. i mean, what's driving you to mind as old as how you've been managing all this was the question about the, how is 2 things? first thing is i, i love it like is really my passion. i'm african, i'm coming in and i see it as my responsibility to work with all the people that have the same interest, the same passion, right? to bring that change in our community as

a 1st to i'm really extremely passionate about it. and the 2nd thing is, i'm not alone. i read it, read important, arrived from the get go, you know, throughout my journey i've had so many people, the support of me and that have helped me for them. you know, for me to get to this point and, and that is not going to change any time soon. we have a fantastic team. i produced for africa. so i think that that is not to be underestimated. that makes a big difference. right. the passion definitely makes a huge difference just before we go, there are a lot of young people across the country and watching you and want to do exactly what you do and try to solve challenges on the continental. and, you know, try to give it a good image, you know, show us what else is happening on the content. and basically, what is your message besides, people stop now and stop now? right? i mean, i speak a lot with people from the asking taskbar here in germany and the like, yeah, i want to get a degree and do x, y, z a before i start doing start i spell yes. ok, right. if you, if it's something that you're really passionate about status, but yes, it can, because you're going to learn for the process and you're going to get better as you proceed. but i would say just just talk now. okay, well, for a few words,

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