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

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 ...

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

They say climate change has affected farmers' ability to produce good cocoa plants; therefore, prices of the beans have gone up. This means the cost is being passed on to the consumer. Rory Kandel ...

The company uses cell culture technology to grow 100 percent natural cocoa from just one or two beans. Its aim is to 'eliminate the industry's costly reliance on fragile rainforests,' the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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