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Isis Almeida and Leanne de Bassompierre, Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- Nobody is suffering more from a global chocolate standoff than the Ivory Coast cocoa farmer. Less than two years after the top cocoa producer teamed up with neighboring Ghana to force companies from Hershey Co. to Nestle SA to pay more for their beans, the attempt to exert control over prices is backfiring. Buyers are refusing to pay up, beans are piling in warehouses upcountry and farmers are so desperate that some even slept outside the offices of Ivory Coast’s cocoa regulator demanding action. “We have suffere...

Nobody is suffering more from a global chocolate standoff than the Ivory Coast cocoa farmer. Less than two years after the top cocoa producer teamed up with neighboring Ghana to force companies from Hershey Co. to Nestle SA to pay more for their beans, the attempt to exert control over prices is backfiring. Buyers are refusing to pay up, beans are piling in warehouses upcountry and farmers are so desperate that some even slept outside the offices of Ivory Coast’s cocoa regulator demanding action. “We have suffered with our cocoa piling up,” said Baba Kampe, a 45-year-old farmer with 8 h...

The two countries expanded output just as Covid-19 locked down cities, and growers now cannot sell their crop and do not have a way to store it