In an article recently published in Communications Earth & Environment, researchers comprehensively investigated the critical ...

Cocoa prices look bullish into 2026 as West Africa faces aging trees, climate and disease limits, and Latin America adds ...

A shortage of cocoa beans has led to a near shutdown of processing plants in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, the two countries responsible for 60% of global production. With chocolate makers around the world ...

Dimitra has an AI- and IoT-based app for farmers and cooperatives to track the conditions of the crop that will reach consumers as chocolate The solution not only tracks how the crops are growing, and ...

December ICE NY cocoa (CCZ24) Friday closed up +14 (+0.21%), and December ICE London cocoa #7 (CAZ24) closed up +57 (+1.10%). Cocoa prices recovered from early losses on Friday and posted modest gains ...

September ICE NY cocoa (CCU24) today is down -734 (-8.54%), and September ICE London cocoa #7 (CAU24) is down -492 (-6.99%). Cocoa prices today are sharply lower as beneficial growing conditions in ...

The bank said prices have been driven higher this year by a combination of shocks, including adverse weather in major ...

Agroforestry systems, which integrate trees and shrubs into farming, are vital to achieving sustainable cocoa production in West Africa where 70 percent of the world cocoa is produced. Climate change ...

Despite record-high cocoa prices, millions of smallholder farmers across West Africa remain trapped in poverty, according to findings from the Cocoa Barometer 2025, released on Wednesday. The biennial ...

A bean and flowers grow on a cacao tree in a greenhouse in Rishon Lezion ESHKOL COUNCIL, Israel (Reuters) - Farming can develop in mysterious ways. Israeli researchers learned about that when the war ...

ESHKOL COUNCIL, Israel (Reuters) - Farming can develop in mysterious ways. Israeli researchers learned about that when the war in Gaza seemed to have all but wrecked their work on a more resilient ...