The price of cacao, or cocoa, has soared in recent months, as chocolate lovers worldwide will attest.
In fact, the price has doubled in a year and the impacts are dramatic.
Oonagh Brown, who styles herself as 'the Cacao Ambassador', has been working alongside Pacific communities to help them improve the quality of their product, and to raise output.
She told RNZ Pacific's Don Wiseman about the effects of the surge in price.