A new European Union regulation requires greater traceability for goods to ensure their sustainability. Ivorian producers ...

The Ivory Coast Cocoa and Coffee Council (CCC ... I ask all those involved in the sector to be vigilant and to denounce smugglers," he said on Saturday. For Ivory Coast farmers, the euphoria ...

ABIDJAN, June 14 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's cocoa regulator plans to implement a reform of the domestic cocoa marketing system that will, within a year, eliminate middlemen to prevent risk and ...

Ivory Coast is the world’s top cocoa producing ... “The bigger players in the chocolate and cocoa sector could easily pay farmers more, dilute some of their margins and still make a decent ...

Ivory Coast's cocoa regulatory body is planning to overhaul the domestic cocoa marketing system within a year, aiming to eliminate middlemen in the hinterland who play roles as scouts and buyers ...

A worker in Agboville, Ivory Coast, carries a bag of cocoa [File: Luc Gnago/Reuters] Kouassi has been advocating for farmers to become a more proactive part of the sector’s value chain.

Mothers in impoverished Ivory Coast cocoa communities say fairer prices ... to succeed as a female farmer and community leader in a sector dominated by men, calling it a “celebratory step ...

N'GATTAKRO, Ivory Coast (AP) — Jean Mari Konan Yao says he's struggling as a cocoa farmer in the west African nation of Ivory Coast, which produces almost half the world’s cocoa supply of the ...

In Ghana and Ivory Coast, two pillars of global cocoa supply, environmental and ... blame but so too are human actions that undermine the sector's stability. According to a report issued by ...

The mining sector now accounts for four percent of Ivory Coast's gross domestic product ... pushed the economy of the world’s biggest cocoa producer in a new direction. Three discoveries ...

Instead of Ivory Coast being a resource for wealthier nations ... he brought together many in the cocoa sector to create a competition for the best fine chocolate, specifically from Africa.

ABIDJAN — Ivory Coast will increase the amount of cocoa it processes domestically to 49% of production starting from October with the addition of several new plants, the head of the sector regulator ...