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

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

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

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

The German company Gepa (Gepa . de) like so many other European companies argues on its websites that producing chocolate not in the countries in which cocoa beans are grown on two main lines: 1 .

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As the price of cocoa soars, manufacturers are quietly changing their recipes - and experts say chocolate could in future ...

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The U.S. was its fourth-largest importer of cocoa beans, after the Netherlands ... partially due to extreme weather conditions in parts of Africa where it’s mainly grown. Together, Ivory ...

Getty Images West Africa accounts for most of the ... where staff process not cacao beans but carob husks. Carob trees produce small, brown, banana-shaped pods containing seeds.

Harmattan winds in West Africa also threatened the harvest, reducing cocoa deliveries from the Ivory Coast. Meanwhile, allegations that Ghanaian farmers were smuggling cocoa beans from neighboring ...