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“By 2030, if nothing is done, we won’t have any cocoa trees because, with climate change, all the cocoa trees will be ...
Cocoa yields will be 'destroyed' by 2030 without financial support and fairer markets, Ivory Coast farmers have warned. The ...
Cocoa tree disease outbreaks, largely driven by adverse weather conditions like excessive rainfall.
His plan is to revolutionize the way the main ingredient in chocolate is produced, growing high-yield cocoa trees, fully irrigated and fertilized, in an area bigger than the island of Manhattan ...
Cocoa has long provided a lifeline in Ivory Coast but adverse weather and plant diseases have hurt harvests in recent years.
Dry periods never used to last this long before,” says Célestin Oura, a farmer in southwestern Côte d’Ivoire. “The dry season ...
The figures show chocolate price inflation is increasing, rising from 9.8 per cent last Easter compared to Easter 2023 to ...
The chocolate giant and ingredients processor plan to plant nearly 3 million trees in growing regions and track its carbon ...
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