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 ...

The Philippines will soon ship raw sugar to the United States to fill part of its allocation under the tariff rate quota (TRQ) scheme of Washington.

BAGUIO CITY – Trade secrets are often concealed to protect a business but for Eva Ritchelle Padua, it is through spilling the ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines ranked third in Asia among countries with the most “unusual heat” caused by climate change within the last three months, scientists from the nonprofit ...

But she said most cocoa farms are small-scale operations and most profits from chocolates don't usually reach farmers themselves, preventing them from having the resources to adapt to climate change.

Fewer people see cocoa farming as a lucrative business and instead are planting other crops such as palm oil. And many small-scale farmers still cannot get loans, he said. But Aryal said he hopes that ...

These involve substitutes for the real thing as well as strategies to more reliably and sustainably source coffee and cocoa. More than a dozen startups innovating in these areas have raised funding in ...

Fewer people see cocoa farming as a lucrative business and instead are planting other crops such as palm oil. And many small-scale farmers still cannot get loans, he said. But Aryal said he hopes that ...

WASHINGTON—In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever often killed more soldiers ...

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May ICE NY cocoa (CCK25) today is down -191 (-2.29%), and May ICE London cocoa #7 (CAK25) is down -141 (-2.17%). Cocoa prices today gave up an early advance and turned lower on the outlook for a ...

Colvin ‘Cocoa Tea’ Scott, who passed away on Tuesday at 65, was one of Reggae and Dancehall’s most enduring and beloved vocalists. Hailing from Rocky Point in Clarendon, he rose to prominence in the ...