Chocolate makers were already grappling with record prices for cocoa butter, which provides that melt-in-your-mouth feel. Now ...

Côte d’Ivoire, the world’s leading cocoa producer, has set an ambitious target: to process 100% of its cocoa crop at the first stage by 2030. While the government is actively encouraging investment in ...

Cocoa and powdered chocolate prices jumped by more than 16% in the EU in May 2025 compared to the previous year. Prices in ...

Dutch wunderkind and celebrity-favorite Iris Van Herpen has occupied fashion’s edge for years. Van Herpen conjured couture ...

A South-Central Pennsylvania congressman is calling on President Donald Trump to end a tariff on cocoa beans. "Confectioners ...

"Cocoa isn't exempt from issues affecting manufacturers and tariffs because we don't grow any cocoa domestically," Baker said ...

World Cocoa Day was established in 2010 by the International Cocoa Organization and the United Nations Food and Agriculture ...

Cargill said that it's now using once-discarded cocoa shells as fuel for biomass boilers at its facilities in Amsterdam.

In Ecuador, farmers who bet on cocoa beans rather than bananas, the country's top agricultural export, are cashing in as a global shortage of the main ingredient in chocolate feeds a price bonanza ...

This paper is based on hyper spectral image analysis during organic violet cocoa bean fermentation. The hyper spectral vision has yielded valuable information on evolution during traditional ...

On May 30, The International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) revised its 2023/24 global cocoa deficit to -494,000 MT from a February estimate of -441,000 MT, the largest deficit in over 60 years.