Before, anyone who wanted to grow cacao at 1,200 or 1,500 meters [3,900 to 4,900 feet] altitude was considered crazy,” says ...

Before, the seasons seemed etched into the calendar, with well-defined periods of drought and rain. Today, the climate has ...

Mothers in impoverished Ivory Coast cocoa communities say fairer prices and contracts are helping to transform their lives and support their children. The west African nation is the biggest producer ...

Cocoa has a rich history, enjoyed across cultures for centuries. Whether you are catching up with old friends over a cup of coffee, or enjoying a warm brew on a rainy afternoon–cocoa has been at the ...

Twenty million trees will be planted and 2,500 hectares (6,178 acres) of new woodland created in the west of England as part of a "national forest" drive, the government has announced. The Western ...

The growing enthusiasm for cultivating, harvesting, and selling raw cocoa, a thriving activity in Kerala’s high ranges and midlands, is finally taking an organised turn. Capitalising on the ...

The recent assertion from Ghana’s newly-elected president John Mahama, that Cocobod, the organisation overseeing the second largest cocoa supplying nation on earth stands to lose a projected figure of ...

THE decline in cocoa production in West Africa due to crop disease and climate change has seen the demand for PNG cocoa increase, according to NGIP Agmark Limited.

TANJUNG REJO, Indonesia (AP) — The loud whirr of a chainsaw sounds through the forest as a small group of farmers gathers around a tree filled with red seed pods. With one slow stroke, a severed ...

Tammy Maki says she's never seen prices for cocoa quite this high. And that's part of the reason why the chef and owner of Raven Rising-Global Indigenous Chocolates has decided to close her ...