The new levies come as nations on the continent continue to struggle with the fallout of the Trump administration’s ...

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At WCF 2025, cocoa leaders call for urgent collaboration, sustainability and innovation to tackle rising prices, disease, and ...

Before, anyone who wanted to grow cacao at 1,200 or 1,500 meters [3,900 to 4,900 feet] altitude was considered crazy,” says ...

Oliver Coppeneur, a chocolate maker from Bad Honnef in Germany, has been in the business since the 1990s. At the moment, though, he's struggling due to rising prices for a key ingredient of his treats ...

So, as you savor chocolate, remember the fragile ecosystems behind it. The price of cocoa in early 2025 was near its all-time high, due in part to dry conditions in Africa. Without urgent action to ...

Seamus Blackley, a tech executive known best for inventing the Xbox game console, inspects his cacao trees. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) ...

Twenty million trees will be planted and 2,500 hectares (6,178 acres) of new woodland created in the west of England as part of a "national forest" drive, the government has announced. The Western ...

SAO PAULO, March 20 (Reuters) - Four Brazilian organizations on Thursday launched a fund aiming to raise 1 billion reais ($176 million) by 2030 for loans to small cocoa growers in the South ...

As such, promoting fast-growing trees could strengthen efforts to mitigate climate change. This raises a key question for forest managers: which tree species have the greatest mitigation potential?

Tammy Maki says she's never seen prices for cocoa quite this high. And that's part of the reason why the chef and owner of Raven Rising-Global Indigenous Chocolates has decided to close her ...