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Climate change and gold mining threaten West Africa's cocoa production Chocolate eggs and bunnies are more expensive than ever this Easter as changing climate patterns eat into global cocoa supplies and the earnings of farmers in West Africa who are also fighting to preserve their land against unlawful gold miners. About three-quarters of the world’s cocoa — the main ingredient in chocolate — are produced on cacao trees in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Cameroon.