Cacao Stories with Viva Cacao — Fair Trade

Maybe you have been hearing about the recent spike in the cost of cocoa and worried about how this might affect your chocolate-loving ways. Let me break this down to help you understand a little bit more about why this is happening and what we’re doing here at Viva Cacao to continue to offer the best quality vegan chocolate available in these unprecedented times. Climate change and disease have lowered the African cacao harvest which is where 70% of the world's cocoa comes from.  Because of this, the big players, such as Nestle, Mars, and Hershey’s have essentially scoured the...