Côte d’Ivoire: 2020 elections & cocoa season uncertainty

Summary Côte d’Ivoire holds a presidential election on October 31, 2020 and electoral campaigns evolving in 2019 raise uncertainty as to the output of next year’s cocoa bean harvest. Analysis Côte d’Ivoire is the world leader in cocoa bean production. Latest estimates forecast that for the 2018-2019 season Côte d’Ivoire will produce just shy of half the world’s total cocoa bean output of almost 5 million tonnes. At just over 2.2 million tonnes per year, Côte d’Ivoire produces almost three times as much as the world’s second largest producer, Ghana, whose production forecast for the 2018-2019 season is just over …

Please to view this content. If you do not have an account you can .