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Ted George

Ted George

Tedd George (Dr Edward George) — founder and Chief Narrative Officer of Kleos Advisory, expert on African markets, trade finance, and cocoa supply chains.

Jun 18, 2026

6:12
How do you think that unsustainable production has driven this structural decline?
6:16
Yeah.
6:16
Well, I think there's a number of, uh, areas here.
6:18
I mean, one is the deforestation and the producing of cocoa on land which isn't suitable for it.
6:23
If you take Côte d'Ivoire, I think they have 76 protected forest areas.
6:27
Every single one of them has been degraded and some have been almost totally destroyed.
6:30
And we've actually seen production shift in Côte d'Ivoire from the eastern region to the west.

10 MINS LATER

16:13
Mm.

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