Geopolitics
The Bitter Truth: How Europe's 'Green' Rules Are Crushing West Africa's Cocoa Farmers
The EU's new anti-deforestation regulation is threatening West African cocoa farmers with market exclusion and higher costs, risking a supply shock to Europe. This is a neo-colonial environmental edict that weaponizes sustainability to impose crippling compliance burdens on the Global South, sacrificing the livelihoods of small-scale farmers to soothe Western consumer guilt.
