The price of cocoa beans, the essential ingredient for chocolate ... He blamed changes in annual rain and drought patterns in western Africa that weakened the sensitive trees in key production areas.

Shoppers are being warned to brace for higher prices on chocolate in supermarkets due to a crop shortage in Ghana and Ivory ...

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

The price of cocoa beans is setting unprecedented records on the commodities market and it will certainly turn the gift of ...

Chocolate prices are up and expected to rise further after catastrophic weather and crop disease crushed the cocoa yield in West Africa.

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 ...

A Chinese contractor has completed work on the largest cocoa factory and warehouse in the Ivory Coast, the South China ...

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 ...

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