Cocoa has long provided a lifeline in Ivory Coast but adverse weather and plant diseases have hurt harvests in recent years.

Grist reports that rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and other climate impacts are throttling cocoa production and ...

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Farmers, officials and industry leaders in Ivory Coast said fairer prices for cocoa are more urgent than ever before.

(Bloomberg) -- Across West Africa’s cocoa heartland, Eddie Arthur has spent a quarter of a century traveling from farm to farm each day to stare at trees and count how many pods they have.