Valentine's day and the whiff of chocolate and cocoa are in the air. The price of cocoa beans is setting unprecedented ...

A lack of rain in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa-growing regions could delay the start of the April-to-September mid-crop, ...

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

Aridity is silently spreading through many of the world’s cocoa-producing regions. There are steps we can take to save them.

The origins of Patrick and Mara Tcheunou’s chocolate business, Bibamba, did not stem from a lifelong dream of being small ...

March ICE NY cocoa (CCH25) Thursday closed down -420 (-3.99%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25) closed down -256 (-3.10%). Cocoa prices Thursday extended this week's sharp decline, with NY ...

Ghana, the second-largest cocoa producer, has over 800,000 smallholder farmers who depended on cocoa. While vital for the economy, cocoa production drives deforestation due to extensive methods. The ...

Farmers report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, despite promises from the Trump administration that a federal funding freeze would ...

“Addressing the impact of climate change on cocoa requires an all-hands-on-deck approach. It affects every stage of the supply chain: farmers face reduced yields, businesses encounter rising costs, ...

By Samuel Lartey(Prof)[email protected], the world’s second-largest cocoa producer, is grappling with a deepening crisis in its cocoa industry. In 2024, cocoa export earnings plummeted to $1.