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Climate scientists warn that West Africa’s cocoa-growing regions will be threatened by climate change in the years to come. In a new study by the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), researchers found that the impacts of climate change will most likely affect supply -- and price -- of chocolate, which will have a trickle-down effect, affecting thousands of smallholder farms in the process. Nearly half of all the world’s chocolate comes from cocoa produced by...