Sustainable chocolate improves transparency and ethical sourcing but largely overlooks cocoa's core climate resilience problem, leaving supply chains more vulnerable.
Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is a vital cash-crop for four to six million small-holder farmers across the tropics, and supports a global chocolate industry valued at over USD 100 billion annually. The ...
OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria — Habitat for a dwindling population of critically endangered African forest elephants is under threat, a casualty of the world’s appetite for chocolate. Deforestation ...
In the cocoa lands of Assin Fosu in the Central region of Ghana, a farmer, Mr. Samuel Torbi walks through his 17-acre farm, machete in hand and purpose in stride. It is a drizzling afternoon. Here, ...
Dimitra has an AI- and IoT-based app for farmers and cooperatives to track the conditions of the crop that will reach consumers as chocolate The solution not only tracks how the crops are growing, and ...
Tanga. In the lush green hills of Muheza District in Tanga Region, cocoa farming is steadily reshaping the fortunes of smallholder farmers who once depended on middlemen and unstable markets.Through ...