WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Climate change is stressing rainforests where the highly sensitive cocoa bean grows, but chocolate lovers need not despair, say companies that are researching other ways to ...

Cocoa supply shocks, soaring prices and new regulations are pushing food manufacturers toward reduced‑cocoa and cocoa‑free ...

Dimitra has an AI- and IoT-based app for farmers and cooperatives to track the conditions of the crop that will reach consumers as chocolate The solution not only tracks how the crops are growing, and ...

Just four West African countries are the foundation of an industry worth more than $100 billion. In the tropical nations of Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, and Nigeria, rows of cacao trees sprout pods ...

Laurent Kone's wattle-and-daub house, with its tarpaulin roof and no electricity, lies down a bumpy red-earth track in ...

At a warehouse in western Ivory Coast the backlog of cocoa beans waiting to be shipped has grown so big the storage site can ...

Climate change is stressing rainforests where the highly sensitive cocoa bean grows, but chocolate lovers need not despair, say companies that are researching other ways to grow cocoa or develop cocoa ...