{"id":86080,"date":"2026-03-08T08:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86080"},"modified":"2026-03-08T08:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:44:17","slug":"cocoa-beans-rot-and-west-african-farmers-seek-other-options-after-commodity-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/08\/cocoa-beans-rot-and-west-african-farmers-seek-other-options-after-commodity-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocoa beans rot and West African farmers seek other options after commodity crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/th.bing.com\/th?id=OVFT.ne1aVgY1Hmvir0b_jDoOjy&amp;pid=News&amp;w=234&amp;h=132&amp;c=14&amp;rs=2&amp;qlt=90&amp;dpr=1.5\" width=\"479\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Manu Yaw Fofie was born into the cocoa farming business, but the land bequeathed to him has become more of a burden than a blessing.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-au\/news\/uknews\/cocoa-beans-rot-and-west-african-farmers-seek-other-options-after-commodity-crash\/ar-AA1XKyca?ocid=BingNewsVerp\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Manu Yaw Fofie was born into the cocoa farming business, but the land bequeathed to him has become more of a burden&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/cocoa-1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86081,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86080\/revisions\/86081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}