A trip to the grocery or liquor store is about to become even more expensive, economists say. From seafood to olive oil, ...

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 Orlando Quintero Gonzales, an agronomist in Colombia’s Eje Cafetero, or the ...

Thursday closed up +323 (+3.60%), and May ICE London cocoa #7 (CAK25) closed down -118 (-1.74%). Cocoa prices Thursday ...

Despite tension within the cocoa sector due to high prices, the world’s largest producer, Côte d’Ivoire, is set for a strong ...

Cocoa production has increased in certain African countries as growing areas expand at the expense of forests, but online ...

Because your chocolate bar was likely produced with the help of child labor. According to Statista, "about 70 percent of the world's cocoa beans come from four West African countries: Ivory Coast, ...

This venture aims to mitigate and reduce the risk of child labor, especially in cocoa farms which are predominant in West Africa. Donaldson's rationale is that these children are more likely to ...

Where it is not racked by war, military coups or jihadism, much of Africa is battling economic ... was driven by a surge in the production of cocoa, of which it remains the world’s largest ...

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The price hike is due to a shortage of cocoa from farms in major cocoa-producing countries in West Africa. A series of climate disasters, including floods and drought, have ruined crops in recent ...