Cocoa is a fruit used in producing various things such as beverages, cocoa butter, cocoa powder, chocolate and so on. Cocoa is also used in making cosmetics due to its health benefits — fatty acids.

This chart shows the world's main cocoa bean producing and importing countries in 2024/2025 (in 1,000 tonnes).

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

ZURICH — Barry Callebaut’s efforts to deal with high cocoa bean prices include creating non-cocoa products through precision ...

Easter is coming and for many that means a chocolate egg. If you are planning on buying a chocolate egg, especially if it's ...

Weak production in the Ivory Coast and Ghana, the world’s top cocoa producers, played a major role in tightening supply. Exporters in the Ivory Coast rejected cocoa beans due to quality issues ...

Regenerative agriculture is complex, costly, and consumers don’t want to pay more for it. What can industry do?

Jean Mari Konan Yao says he's struggling as a cocoa farmer in the west African nation of Ivory Coast, which produces almost half the world’s ...

which makes a cocoa powder alternative called Choruba. The company opened its production facility in March, where staff process not cacao beans but carob husks. Carob trees produce small ...

Brigham and Women's Hospital-led research reports no significant long-term benefit of cocoa flavanol supplementation in ...