The International Cocoa Trade, 3rd Edition

Preface

My publisher once told me, cocking a hopeful eye at his author, that financially the most successful books of non-fiction were those about either sex or chocolate. For the curious the former is obliquely referred once in Section 1.1.1 while Chapter 9 is about making the latter. Sadly neither reference will satisfy the prurient or the gourmand as this is a book primarily about how, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, cocoa is traded and the main factors that drive and affect that business.

So in an attempt to be, as the Ghanaians say, ‘a good ancestor’ to those in cocoa, this book is written primarily for those needing a better understanding of the fundamentals forming the cocoa trade; be they those trading physical cocoa, ...