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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A farmer holds an opened cocoa pod at a plantation in Tanjung Rejo, Lampung province, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) ...

(AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) A farmer uses a chainsaw to trim a cocoa tree at a plantation in Tanjung Rejo, Lampung province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) Tari Santoso ...