B2 Global Cocoa Crisis LC035

Listen to a report about a crisis in the chocolate-producing industry. Match the beginnings of
the sentences with the sentence endings and write the answers into the correct box. There
are TWO extra endings you will not need.

Global Cocoa Crisis

https://www.npr.org/player/embed/133865745/133943782

Almost half of the world's cocoa prices are the highest in three
1 A
production decades.
Due to a ban on cocoa exports from Ivory they come from environmentally-
2 B
Coast friendly farms.
The sacks that are unloaded from the they may have to produce smaller
3 C
Star Tramp packages.
Because Ivory Coast has stopped its
4 D cocoa is delivered by ship.
cocoa export
World consumption of cocoa has risen there may not be enough chocolate
5 E
because this year.

6 If companies don't get enough cocoa F cocoa beans are processed on site.

they may have to import beans from

7 At a small chocolate factory in New York G
South America.
are reserved for large chocolate
8 Mast pays more for cocoa beans because H
producers.
According to Rick Mast, chocolate should
9 I it has become a luxury item.
have a higher price because
chocolate in India and China is in
J
demand.

K comes from western Africa.

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