In February 2023, GhanaWeb published an article revealing that Ghana's first cocoa seeds were not swallowed by Tetteh Quarshie. This discovery was made after GhanaWeb's People and Places team ...

Cocoa has long been one of Ghana’s main exports, central to the country’s development and poverty alleviation strategies since its independence in 1957. Presently, Ghana is the world's second largest ...

Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in West Africa, which supplies around 70% of the world's cacao, are ...

Ghana is the second largest cocoa producer in the world; however, its cocoa sector is associated with many socio-economic and environmental problems. The current study is one of the most ...

Ghana’s cocoa production has plummeted to its lowest point in two decades, with production levels standing at a concerning 530,000 metric tonnes, according to Mr Eric Opoku, the Minister-designate for ...

From fantasy coffins to the very specific order of events during a funeral, Ghana has a particular funeral industry – and ...

ACCRA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Ghana has delayed the delivery of 370,000 metric tons of cocoa in the 2023/24 season due to poor output, its food and agribusiness minister-designate told a parliamentary ...

Presenter Hazel Lindsey travels from England to West Africa, to investigate the use of child labour on cocoa plantations in Ghana. She travels to the village of Akyem Ofoase, about five hours from ...

Stakeholders in the cocoa sector have called for concerted efforts to stem the disturbing reality of the use of children for exploitative labour in cocoa growing communities in the country. The ...