(The Conversation) – 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 ...

Cocoa prices look bullish into 2026 as West Africa faces aging trees, climate and disease limits, and Latin America adds ...

KANSAS CITY — The global cocoa market has endured mixed supply and demand signals this year, which means uncertainty now and in the months ahead. In a nutshell, cocoa bean futures in London reached ...

ABIDJAN, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's cocoa production is expected to fall by as much as 20% in the upcoming 2023/24 season compared to recent years due to poor weather, putting further upward ...

Dr. Tonya Lander, Stipendiary Lecturer at Christ Church and researcher at the Oxford Martin School Program on the Future of ...

THE 1998 1st Runner up of the Best National Farmer, Mr Nicholas Fato, has called on the government to address the problems associated with the purchasing of cocoa beans from farmers in the Oti and the ...

Cocoa bean fermentation is a complex and dynamic microbiological process that transforms harvested cocoa pods into precursors essential for flavour and quality in chocolate production. This process ...

As Ghana celebrated Farmers’ Day 2025, the Yves Rocher Foundation, founded in 1959 in France and championing biodiversity and ...

With climate change and higher incidences of crop diseases, global cocoa production and supply is being threatened. A ...