Cocoa beans arrivals at Ivory Coast's two main ports for the week of Jan. 13-19 were at 34,000 metric tons, compared with 41,000 tons for the same week the previous season, exporters' data showed ...

The chief of staff of Ivory Coast's army has ordered the suspension of five officials tasked with combating cocoa smuggling ...

Heavy rain in the Ivory Coast has also flooded fields, increased disease risk, and affected crop quality. Recently harvested cocoa beans from the Ivory Coast signal lower quality, with counts of ...

IVORY COAST expects to record one of the worst mid-crop cocoa harvests of the last 15 years this season with production seen no higher than 300,000 metric tons (MT) compared with a yearly average of ...

Climate change is having a significant impact on cocoa production in West and Central Africa, according to a study by ...

Farmers in Ivory Coast, the source of 45% of the world’s cocoa beans, battle climate change and market inequality. We examine why Ivory Coast’s defeat of Nigeria in the Africa Cup of Nations ...

Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest cocoa grower, dismissed two military officials and other local government personnel amid continuing efforts to curb smuggling of the crop. Security operations ...

Major challenges in the global cocoa sector were addressed during the opening day of the Amsterdam Sustainable Conference, ...

ABIDJAN, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut and Singapore-based food group Olam have been buying fewer cocoa beans from Ivory Coast since mid-December after a rise in port prices ...

Heavy rain in the Ivory Coast has also flooded fields, increased disease risk, and affected crop quality. Recently harvested cocoa beans from the Ivory Coast signal lower quality, with counts of ...

Traffickers in Guinea have been paying between 4,000 CFA and 5,000 CFA per kilogram of cocoa beans, well above Ivory Coast's farm gate price of 1,800 CFA, due to the rise in world cocoa prices.