The first thing that hits you is the immense smell of cocoa, almost overbearingly so by the decadence of the aroma. By smell alone, if you had no idea of what kind of chocolate manufacturer Chomp!
Cacao farmers in emerging regions often lack access to financial services as well as efficient, sustainable production practices. A new blockchain-based app aims to change that. The Connected Cacao ...
Cocoa substitutes are entering the chocolate market as the confectionery industry responds to volatile bean prices and supply ...
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's cocoa regulator on Thursday started distributing electronic cards to cocoa farmers to help track beans from plantations to their export ports and ensure the growers ...
ABIDJAN, June 19 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's domestic cocoa traders' association (GNI) has asked multinationals, which have a monopoly on fairtrade certified cocoa contracts, to increase the volume of ...
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Multinational cocoa exporters operating in Ivory Coast have agreed to sell their domestic counterparts 60,000 of the 150,000 tonnes the Ivorian companies say they need to avoid ...