Abidjan, 11 dec 2026 (AIP)- La filière cacao ivoirienne est aujourd’hui confrontée à une situation grave qui révèle, une fois ...

Swiss cocoa processing giant, Barry Callebaut, has outlined a new set of sustainability targets in its latest Forever Chocolate report, including steps to transition fully to “forest positive” in 2025 ...

SOUBRÉ, Côte d’Ivoire — “Dry periods never used to last this long before,” says Célestin Oura, a farmer in southwestern Côte d’Ivoire. “The dry season used to last a month at most. Now, it lasts three ...

(The Conversation) – 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 ...

In other areas, artificial support for cocoa farming is creating a debt problem. Farmers are also still under pressure to supply markets in wealthy countries instead of securing their own future. In ...

Cote d’Ivoire has reinstated cocoa sustainability schemes run by US confectionery major Hershey after the West African country withdrew from them earlier in the year amid a row over price premiums ...

As a young girl, Christine Amea Manzan would follow her father into his cacao field. After losing her mother, it was up to her father to raise her. She grew up in a rural area of Abengourou, Côte ...

ABIDJAN — In recent months, the town of Soubré in the southwest of Côte d’Ivoire has experienced a shortage of staple products in local markets. Some of the most widely consumed foods, such as ...

Côte d’Ivoire, the world’s leading cocoa-producing country, began its interim marketing campaign for the 2022-2023 harvest on 1 April and ended it on 30 September. For this period, the government is ...

SAN PEDRO, Ivory Coast, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's Choco-Ivoire, a unit of SAF Cacao, will invest 15 million euros ($16.24 million) to double its annual grinding capacity to 64,000 tonnes by ...

The Côte d’Ivoire government has increased the farmgate price of cocoa beans by 50%. Kobenan Kouassi Adjoumani, the National Minister of State, Agriculture and Rural Development and Food Production, ...

Cocoa production in Côte d’Ivoire began in the 1950s in forests bordering Ghana, and progressively shifted west as trees were removed and soil exhausted. Côte d’Ivoire lost 217,866 hectares of ...