Ghana’s cocoa industry faces significant challenges, threatening its status as the world’s second-largest producer. Illegal ...

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

Climate change is having a significant impact on cocoa production in West and Central Africa, according to a study by ...

said it stopped buying cocoa beans because of the price, though it continues to operate on its current supply. Sources cited by Reuters claim the plant was nearly idle. Heavy rains followed by ...

Cocoa powder is made from cacao beans, which come from the plant Theobroma cacao L. Cacao beans are the primary ingredient in chocolate, but they can also be ground into cocoa powder. The powder ...

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

An curved arrow pointing right. A huge cocoa shortage has hit the world's top cocoa-growing countries. Now, for the third year in a row, there are not enough cocoa beans to meet global demand.

The farmers swing their machetes, careful to avoid the ripening yellow pods containing beans that will help ... acknowledging that he’s growing cocoa at an illegal plantation at the Eseke ...

December election disrupted cocoa regulator's new marketing ... "It made the Christmas sour." With beans piling up on plantations and a growing discrepancy between Ghana's official farmgate ...