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At long last, the sun has returned and patio dining is once again palatable. Still, it’s hard to ignore the cloud of ...
More music: Sake Noire, the pop-up sake and shochu bar that does paired tasting menus and jazz nights from its temporary ...
Seattle Times food writer Jackie Varriano talks about the growing artisanal chocolate making scene in Seattle and why it’s worth it to shell out $13 for a craft bar of cacao confection.
April 10 (Reuters) - Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut (BARN.S), opens new tab lowered its annual sales volume guidance on Thursday due to what it called "unprecedented volatility" in cocoa ...
Cargill, in collaboration with the International Cocoa (ICI), has held a graduation ceremony to honour 60 adolescent apprentices – reaffirming its commitment to preventing and addressing child labour ...
At the World Cocoa Foundation’s (WCF) 2025 Partnership Meeting in Brazil, held from March 19-20, cocoa stakeholders from across the value chain gathered to address the sector’s most pressing ...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has maintained the producer price for the 2025/2026 crop season. This was announced in a letter to the Licensed Cocoa Buyers’ Association of Ghana, following a ...
ACCRA, April 9 (Reuters) - Ghana has kept the fixed farmgate price paid to cocoa farmers unchanged, according to a letter from regulator Cocobod to licensed buyers seen by Reuters. Last week Ivory ...
The Executive Director of the African Centre for Environment and Sustainability, Dr Clement Abaidoo, has said that illegal mining (galamsey) is a threat to Ghana's cocoa production. He stated that ...
At the heart of this phenomenon lies cocoa, the raw commodity essential to chocolate production. Since October 2022, cocoa prices have surged from roughly $2,000 USD per metric ton to over $12,475 USD ...