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 ...

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 was the best-performing commodity in 2024, outpacing even bitcoin, but that hasn’t stopped farmers from abandoning the ...

Climate change threatens agricultural production across sub‐Saharan Africa, where most farmers rely on rainfall. A study by researchers at the University of Göttingen and the European Commission's ...

In the cocoa lands of Assin Fosu in the Central region of Ghana, a farmer, Mr. Samuel Torbi walks through his 17-acre farm, machete in hand and purpose in stride. It is a drizzling afternoon. Here, ...

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 ...

Climate change is having a significant impact on cocoa production in West and Central Africa, according to a study by Wageningen University & Research (WUR). The region accounts for more than 70% of ...

Cocoa prices surged on world markets in 2023-2024 In Nigeria, thousands switch careers to grow cocoa Official: big share of Nigerian beans smuggled out IKOM, Nigeria, May 6 (Reuters) - Growing up in ...

Farmer setting up high-tech cocoa farm larger than Manhattan Production to be nearly 100% mechanized, using high-yield trees Cargill is a partner in the initial phase Chocolate maker Barry Callebaut a ...

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 ...