Chocolate

To all our Hinterland reading chocolate eaters – some cause for modest concern (and perhaps some pre-emptive christmas bulk buying) in this story about your favourite confection. This article tells us:

Soaring demand from Asian consumers, and increasing Western appetite for darker chocolate could result in a major supply shortage in 2015.

If suppliers cannot expand demand, then Saxo Bank predicts that the price of chocolate’s key ingredient – cocoa – might rise to more than $5,000 (£3,200) a tonne, well above its latest high of $3,318 per tonne.