Climate change, global cocoa shortages, and rising production costs are putting the squeeze on chocolate lovers this Easter.

Cocoa farmers in the world's top-producing country Ivory Coast warn insufficient rainfall could hurt both the quality and ...

A shortage of beans has also forced plants in ... Adenowuro says: “We want to rejuvenate the farm and to take a bite of the rising cocoa prices.” ...

Easter is coming and for many that means a chocolate egg. If you are planning on buying a chocolate egg, especially if it's ...

Farms have no cocoa beans ready for harvest, "just one or two pods here and there", said an Abidjan-based exporter. Meanwhile, cocoa flowers require 22 weeks to become mature pods, which means ...

But citizens are barred by law from processing cocoa from their farms into secondary products like ... If a farmer wants to process the beans, they’d have to buy back from the COCOBOD. By the ...