CHOCOLATE IS THE NEW BLACK GOLD

A guilty pleasure hard to resist

Synopsis

As a Christmas gift, a night craving, or a mood booster, chocolate is a man's best friend. It is a guilty pleasure hard to resist.

Chocolate is flooding Asian countries, and millions of new consumers are raising an issue no one envisioned: a cocoa shortage, the main ingredient in chocolate products, is looming. It is about to become scarce. Inevitably, chocolate prices are rocketing, doubling within a year.

From Ivory Coast plantations to trading rooms, we investigate the cocoa industry and try to unravel the mystery of this new black gold.