A shortage of cocoa beans has led to a near shutdown of processing plants in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, the two countries responsible for 60% of global production. With chocolate makers around the world ...
Cocoa farmers in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire make less than a dollar a day. And there are almost 2 million of them; the two countries are the world’s largest cocoa producers, supplying two-thirds of the ...
CocoGoodsCo returned to the Summer Fancy Food Show 2026 with a strong focus on functional innovation and sustainable coconut ...
In 2000 and 2001, the use of child slaves on cocoa farms in West Africa was exposed in a series of documentaries and pieces of investigative journalism, sparking an international outcry . This series ...
“We love chocolate, we love cocoa, and we love the product that is produced in a sustainable and just way by small-stake farmers,” co-founder Sara Marquart said in an interview Digital News Writer, ...
CHICAGO — Mondelez International, Inc. and Olam Food Ingredients, a business of Olam International, are collaborating to create what the companies call the world’s single largest sustainable ...
Insect-eating bats prefer cocoa farms that retain large, old-growth trees that mimic the natural forest conditions. New research found higher abundance and diversity of bats on farms with 65% or ...
ABIDJAN, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The use of child labour has risen in cocoa farms in Ghana and Ivory Coast over the past decade despite industry promises to reduce it, academics said on Monday, largely ...
Grown each year on the Gold Coast of Western Africa are enough beans for half the world’s supply of cocoa—270,000 tons. The cocoa farms are run by native tribesmen, black as a tinker’s pot and quick ...
SOUBRE, Ivory Coast, May 6 (Reuters) - Around 15% of cocoa farms in the world’s top grower Ivory Coast are in protected forest areas, potentially breaching standards expected in upcoming European ...
Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana have agreed to harmonise their cocoa farm-gate pricing policies in a major step aimed at improving ...