Why the cocoa crisis is a warning for the whole food supply chain

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Cocoa’s collapse shows hedging and substitution can no longer stand in for real resilience, says Tom Campbell-Smart, operations director at Brand Organic

Every buyer, producer and supplier we have ever worked with always had a contingency plan for a bad harvest. Very few had a plan for no harvest at all, but many do now.

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