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According to International Cocoa Organisation forecasts, Ghana’s output this season will be more than 40% below its peak four ...

Compartés reports that the U.S. chocolate industry is in turmoil with new tariffs to disrupt supply chains and increase costs ...

As Africa braces for the fallout from sweeping new U.S. tariffs, the continent must accelerate efforts to boost internal ...

A dramatic decline in cocoa production owing to bad weather and disease in West Africa caused prices to skyrocket.

A dramatic spike in the price of cocoa that roiled commodity traders and candy makers is showing signs of easing, and the top ...

High temperatures, ageing trees and disease have lowered cocoa supplies and raised prices. Cocoa prices surged almost 300 ...

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With Nigeria and the rest of Africa producing more than 70 per cent of the world’s cocoa, yet accounting for less than one per cent of global chocolate production, international expert and Chief ...

WTO Chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala warns new US tariffs highlight Africa's trade vulnerabilities, urging the continent to boost ...

Chief among them is extreme weather, which has hit cocoa producers in West Africa, from where most of the world imports cocoa. According to Amber Sawyer, an analyst at the environmental think tank ...