LONDON/ACCRA — Major African cocoa plants in Ivory Coast and Ghana have stopped or cut processing because they cannot afford to buy beans, four trading sources said, meaning chocolate prices around ...

Olam Food Ingredients (Ofi) has installed two circular biomass boilers at its cocoa processing factories in the Netherlands and Germany. By using cocoa shells – a by-product of the cocoa production ...

September ICE NY cocoa (CCU24) today is down -313 (-3.54%), and September ICE London cocoa #7 (CAU24) is down -69 (-1.07%). Cocoa prices today are sharply lower due to an improved outlook for the next ...

TEL AVIV, Israel and NEW YORK, Oct. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Celleste Bio™, an early-stage cocoa tech company, announced today a major milestone in building a climate resilient cocoa supply. At this ...

A shortage of cocoa beans has led to a near shutdown of processing plants in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, the two countries responsible for 60% of global production. With chocolate makers around the world ...

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon plans to double its cocoa processing capacity to about 30 percent of its total production or nearly 70,000 tonnes of beans per year by adding 10 new processing units, a ...

Vice President Kashim Shettima on Monday declared that the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is fully committed to reviving Nigeria’s cocoa industry, with a strategic shift from raw cocoa ...

September ICE NY cocoa (CCU24) today is down -268 (-3.12%), and September ICE London cocoa #7 (CAU24) is down -237 (-3.59%). Cocoa prices today are sharply lower after Cameroon's National Cocoa and ...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has entered into a partnership with the Johnvents Industries Limited to boost cocoa production in the country. It said ...

The Global President of the Cocoa Farmers Alliance Association of Africa (COFAAA), Comrade Adeola Adegoke, has called for an ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Four Brazilian organizations on Thursday launched a fund aiming to raise 1 billion reais ($176 million) by 2030 for loans to small cocoa growers in the South American country to ...

MUNICH, GERMANY — From artificial sweeteners to 3D-printed meat, scientists have long been trying to reinvent food in laboratories. One of the latest foods to be formulated on the lab bench is ...