Hawaii has long been known for its rich agricultural heritage, with crops like coffee sustaining generations of islanders. However, there is a new contender ...

While many of us are familiar with chocolate, fewer will have tried cacao fruit. If you have got your hands on some fresh ...

Before, anyone who wanted to grow cacao at 1,200 or 1,500 meters [3,900 to 4,900 feet] altitude was considered crazy,” says ...

President Donald Trump’s tariffs on major cocoa-producing countries are giving European chocolate companies a competitive ...

For members of the Sani Warmi collective in Amazonian Ecuador, the day begins before sunrise. They tend to the chacra — their ...

Other businesses have responded to supply chain pressures by exploring the use of alternatives like carob, grape seeds and fava beans. However, rather than trying to substitute cocoa for something ...

No one knows the chocolate making process better than Eldora Chocolate owner and founder Steve Prickett, who sources cacao beans from 35 countries, using them to make and sell fine chocolate at ...

Cacao Kingdom, a shop that makes chocolate from cacao beans roasted in house, also announced Tuesday that the eatery will close this week after being asked to leave the mall by the owners.

The recent assertion from Ghana’s newly-elected president John Mahama, that Cocobod, the organisation overseeing the second largest cocoa supplying nation on earth stands to lose a projected figure of ...

Carodenuto and some of her students recently took a trip to Belize, another cocoa-producing country, to see the effects of recent wildfires. They noticed how crops protected by the shade of trees ...

Sophia Carodenuto, an associate professor of geography at the University of Victoria, shows students a cocoa pod during a recent research trip to Belize. (Submitted by Sophia Carodenuto ...

Five pod counters and five exporters told Reuters they expect farmers to harvest between 280,000 and 300,000 metric tons of cocoa due to the dry spell, which deteriorates beans' size and quality.