While many of us are familiar with chocolate, fewer will have tried cacao fruit. If you have got your hands on some fresh ...

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 ...

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 ...

On average, each cocoa tree generates an income of ₹2,000 for farmers. The area under cocoa cultivation has been on a rise in Kerala, reaching 18,233 hectares in 2022-23. Despite this rise in ...

The recent assertion from Ghana’s newly-elected president John Mahama, that Cocobod, the organisation overseeing the second largest cocoa supplying nation on earth stands to lose a projected figure of ...

or fight the disease and viruses that are affecting the tree," Carodenuto said. She says cocoa farming itself contributes to climate change through deforestation — which can change ...

With one slow stroke, a severed knobby branch hits the ground. “Now it will help the tree grow new fruit,” farmer Tari Santoso says with a smile. Thousands of cocoa farmers across Indonesia like ...

“Now it will help the tree grow new fruit,” farmer Tari Santoso says with a smile. Recommended Videos Thousands of cocoa farmers across Indonesia like Santoso are working with businesses and ...