KARE 11's Laura Betker says there are four important things to ask before deciding which tree to buy and where to plant it.

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 Orlando Quintero Gonzales, an agronomist in Colombia’s Eje Cafetero, or the ...

For members of the Sani Warmi collective in Amazonian Ecuador, the day begins before sunrise. They tend to the chacra — their ...

European chocolate makers and consumers are feeling the impact of poor cocoa harvests in West Africa caused by a viral disease and climate change.Oliver Coppeneur, a chocolate maker from Bad Honnef in ...

So, as you savor chocolate, remember the fragile ecosystems behind it. The price of cocoa in early 2025 was near its all-time high, due in part to dry conditions in Africa. Without urgent action to ...

BAGUIO CITY – Trade secrets are often concealed to protect a business but for Eva Ritchelle Padua, it is through spilling the ...

Here are a few ways to give back if you are planning a trip to Maui (and if you aren't, why you might want to).

In the face of climate change and economic uncertainty, Ghana is taking a bold step to secure its agricultural future ...

Gauff is the highest-paid female athlete in the world, but still finds the South Florida park where she grew up a place to ...

Cocoa production has increased in certain African countries as growing areas expand at the expense of forests, but online ...

“Cocoa is a market where the grower produces a very high-value good but receives a very low share of the actual value chain.

IN an effort to help family-run traditional businesses stay competitive, Selangor government has given some of them a chance ...