Cocoa trees grow about 20 degrees north and south of the equator in regions with warm weather and abundant rain, including West Africa and South America. Climate change is expected to dry out the ...

In Ecuador, researchers are conserving the genetic legacy of cocoa (Theobroma cacao), the raw material of chocolate. Cesar Guillermo Tapia Bastidas, head of Ecuador's national department of ...

Israeli researchers learned about that when the war in Gaza seemed to have all but wrecked their work on a more resilient strain of the cocoa plant that could help alleviate a global shortage of ...

In the cacao orchards of Ivory Coast, women do most of the work for just a small portion of the income. Now, they are calling time on patriarchal attitudes. Rosine Bekoin has been farming cacao ...

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 Puffs cereal could contain dangerously high levels of lead, according to two federal lawsuits seeking millions from General Mills. The class-action suits filed recently in Minnesota and ...

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September ICE NY cocoa (CCU24) on Thursday closed down -348 (-3.94%), and September ICE London cocoa #7 (CAU24) closed down -94 (-1.46%). Cocoa prices fell sharply on Thursday due to an improved ...

Chocolate manufacturers could add cheaper ingredients to help absorb the rising price of cocoa Chocolate bars could get smaller or have cheaper ingredients added as manufacturers try to combat ...

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From California to Israel, companies are aiming to grow cocoa beyond the tropics in a bid to buffer chocolate's key ingredient from climate change WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Climate change is ...