A dramatic decline in cocoa production owing to bad weather and disease in West Africa caused prices to skyrocket, putting ...

Despite being the world’s largest producer of cocoa, Africa is yet to fully capitalize on its position in the global cocoa industry.

Cocoa has long provided a lifeline in Ivory Coast but adverse weather and plant diseases have hurt harvests in recent years.

The new levies come as nations on the continent continue to struggle with the fallout of the Trump administration’s ...

By shading cacao trees on plantations, for example, it might be possible to improve harvests and potentially reduce the ...

In the tropical nations of Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, and Nigeria, rows of cacao trees sprout pods bearing dozens of ...

A shortage of cocoa beans is driving up the cost to make chocolate — especially for small chocolatiers. That means people ...

A project in West Africa helped curb the practice of 10-year-old children being sent to harvest cacao beans with machetes, ...

Grist reports that rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and other climate impacts are throttling cocoa production and ...