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By shading cacao trees on plantations, for example, it might be possible to improve harvests and potentially reduce the ...
Dark chocolate with cocoa higher than 75% is considered a craft ingredient among chocolate experts. Find out what makes a ...
High temperatures, ageing trees and disease have lowered cocoa supplies and raised prices. Cocoa prices surged almost 300 ...
Grist reports that rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and other climate impacts are throttling cocoa production and ...
A shortage of cocoa beans is driving up the cost to make chocolate — especially for small chocolatiers. That means people ...
A plant native to the areas around the western Amazon River basin on both sides of the Andes Mountains, cacao is believed to ...
According to International Cocoa Organisation forecasts, Ghana’s output this season will be more than 40% below its peak four ...
Cocoa prices surged almost 300 percent last ... published a paper this year showing that climate change compromised cacao trees during the harvest season in Ivory Coast and Ghana.
In the tropical nations of Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, and Nigeria, rows of cacao trees sprout pods bearing ... and methane is roasting the planet's cocoa belt and skyrocketing chocolate ...