CelloMom On Cars<p>Less coffee, more chocolate (both more expensive)</p><p>"This changing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> has made mid-altitude lands, once dominated by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coffee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coffee</span></a>, ideal for cacao. But economics also plays a role in this switch, say researchers. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cacao" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cacao</span></a> prices have increased in the last year and some farmers find it too hard to manage the costs of controlling more pests on their coffee crops as temperatures get warmer."</p><p><a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/colombian-coffee-farmers-make-switch-to-cacao-as-climate-warms-and-prices-soar/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.mongabay.com/2025/04/colo</span><span class="invisible">mbian-coffee-farmers-make-switch-to-cacao-as-climate-warms-and-prices-soar/</span></a></p>