According to Reuters, state-owned Transcao, one of Cote d’Ivoire’s largest processing plants, said it stopped buying cocoa beans because of the price, though it continues to operate on its ...

Scientists and entrepreneurs are working on ways to make more cocoa or develop cocoa substitutes as climate change affects ...

The cacao trees mature at five years and begin to flower on the trunk. The flowers are pollinated by midges, a small fly.

Cocoa was the best-performing commodity in 2024 ... at helping farmers—and a fast-moving virus that has ravaged their plants.

We’re not trying to replace or even compete with agriculture; we're closing the gap between demand and supply," says the CEO ...

Cacao beans held great prominence in the daily lives ... a drink made from the cocoa-plant, which they said he took before visiting his wives." The Spaniards noted that the Aztecs could walk ...

The beans are then removed from the pods with their surrounding pulp. Workers fill sacks with cocoa beans in Kahin village at the edge of the Scio forest reserve in Duekoue, Ivory Coast.

Stephen Grootes talks to Honest Chocolate's Anthony Gird about the supply and demand dynamics affecting chocolatiers.

Both Ivory Coast and Ghana forward-sell the next season’s beans and set the price that ... that West African farmers have to try to grow more cocoa on the plots they have. That decision often ...