Farmers in the region have struggled with heat, disease and unusual rainfall in recent years. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in West Africa, which supplies around 70% of the world's cacao, are ...

Climate change drove weeks of crop-withering temperatures last year in the west African countries that underpin the world's ...

It will be harder to find sweet deals on chocolate this Valentine’s Day. In fact, the cost of chocolate might put a bitter ...

Another cocoa harvest in West Africa has come up short, leading to the worst deficit in decades. That means higher prices for ...

Phytophthora-infected cacao pods develop lesions, which eventually host white fluffy growth before the pods shrivel into a ...

Climate change drove weeks of crop-withering temperatures last year in the West African countries that underpin the world's chocolate supply, hitting harvests and likely further stoking record prices, ...

Climate change is substantially affecting cocoa production in a region of Africa that accounts for more than 70% of global ...

Hershey’s said it buys cocoa nearly a year in advance, so the cost at the store this Valentine’s Day won’t reflect today’s ...

He packaged the sweet chocolates in lovely heart-shaped boxes adorned with Cupids and rosebuds, and marketed them around Valentine’s Day.

The cost of cocoa reached a record high in December 2024, and the price keeps climbing. How is industry reacting and what ...

Valentine's Day often conjures images of chocolates and romance. But the crop behind this indulgence faces an existential ...