"Last year, the world ate roughly 70,000 metric tons more cocoa than it produced. By 2020, the two chocolate-makers warn that that number could swell to 1 milli

"Last year, the world ate roughly 70,000 metric tons more cocoa than it produced. By 2020, the two chocolate-makers warn that that number could swell to 1 million metric tons, a more than 14-fold increase; by 2030, they think the deficit could reach 2 million metric tons." How can the world be eating more cocoa than it produces? I can imagine there might be stockpiles, but surely they're gone if we're talking about year-over-year deficits. I think the article means that the demand for chocolate in 2020 could be 1 million metric tons more than supply. So prices will go up, and there will be an economic incentive for suppliers to increase production and for manufacturers to innovate with new products and efficiencies. Seems pretty normal.