In our special report, we spoke with Olasunkanmi Owoyemi, Managing Director at SGC–SunBeth Global Concepts, who offered a ...

West African cocoa production, which has faced two successive below-average harvests, is likely to see another 10% decline in ...

Africa: The Real Cost of Your Chocolate Habit - New Research Reveals the Bittersweet Truth of Cocoa Farming in Africa's Forests. Etty Fidele/Unsplash. Drying cocoa beans in Ivory Coast.

West African cocoa production is expected to decline by 10% in the 2025/26 season despite improved weather. Factors such as ...

A shortage of cocoa beans has led to a near shutdown of processing plants in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, the two countries responsible for 60% of global production. With chocolate makers around the ...

Agroforestry systems, which integrate trees and shrubs into farming, are vital to achieving sustainable cocoa production in West Africa where 70 percent of the world cocoa is produced. Climate ...

Bio Euphrahim, left, who is based in San-Pédro, Ivory Coast, was one of several young farmers who were part of an ...

They calculate that cocoa is directly responsible for almost 40 percent of the deforestation in these protected areas—about 1.5 million hectares of forest gone since 2000.

In Ecuador, annual production has risen to between 400,000 and 430,000 tons in 2022-2023 (Oct-Sept) from 287,000 tons five years ago, according to estimates by the International Cocoa Organization ...

September ICE NY cocoa (CCU24 ) today is up +139 (+1.45%), and September ICE London cocoa #7 (CAU24 ) is unchanged. NY cocoa prices today are moderately higher. Dry weather in West Africa could ...

However, research suggests that child labour in cocoa farming in West Africa is still rampant. Although trafficking is difficult to study, ...