Money can’t buy you love — or as much cocoa as it used to, with adverse weather denting West African crops and chocolatiers ...

Chocolate prices are sky-high in early 2025, and the reasoning has as much to do with severe weather conditions as it does with inflation.

Another cocoa harvest in West Africa has come up short, leading to the worst deficit in decades. That means higher prices for ...

Another cocoa harvest in West Africa has come up short, leading to the worst deficit in decades. That means higher prices for ...

Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in West Africa, which supplies around 70% of the world's cacao, are disrupting the crop, affecting both the quantity and quality of beans — and ...

ICE NY cocoa (CCH25) today is up +414 (+4.26%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25) is up +242 (+3.10%). Cocoa prices today ...

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

Climate change is having a significant impact on cocoa production in West and Central Africa, according to a study by ...

These are further compounded by adverse weather conditions that decimated West African crops in 2024. They sent cocoa prices soaring to record highs, with futures hitting US$11,720 per tonne in April ...

According to the International Cocoa Initiative, an estimated 770,000 children were actively engaged in hazardous child labour in Ghana’s cocoa sector Canada’s Social Justice fund commits ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as ECOWAS, the body said Wednesday. The previously ...

The Cocoa Farmers Alliance Association of Africa has called on the new Chief ... pricing and the promotion of value addition within the sector. “We are confident that your expertise, passion ...