(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 ...

March ICE NY cocoa (CCH25) today is up +414 (+4.26%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25) is up +242 (+3.10%). Cocoa prices today are sharply higher as insufficient rain in West Africa sparked short ...

December ICE NY cocoa (CCZ25) today is up +10 (+0.19%), and December ICE London cocoa #7 (CAZ25) is up +35 (+0.87%). Cocoa prices recovered from early losses today and moved higher as signs of ...

Cacao is the raw, unprocessed part of the cacao tree used to produce chocolate — and there is no question it's a true treasure. Unfortunately, most chocolate manufacturers today only seek out the ...

DeWayne Shoemaker is a professor and department head of Entomology and Plant Pathology at the University of Tennessee. This story originally featured on The Conversation. It’s almost impossible to ...

Why has cocoa production declined sharply in west Africa? Three factors are at play: environmental, economic cycle related and human. One environmental factor is the impact of the El Niño weather ...