Cocoa

Chocolate Forests: Can Cocoa Help Restore The Amazon?

For years, Valdomiro Facchi has made a living ranching on land carved from the Amazon rainforest. He's a small player in one of the world's biggest environ...

Barry Callebaut Confirms Targets After H1 Results Beat Expectations

Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut has confirmed its mid-term financial targets of 4-6 percent volume growth, after a positive set of quarterly results....

Aldi Suisse Tests Parcel Delivery Service, Promotes Sustainable Cocoa

Aldi Suisse, together with Swiss Post and other retailers, is testing a new model that aims to simplify package delivery and collection by customers. In...

Ferrero Joins UN Effort To End Cocoa Deforestation

Confectionery company Ferrero has joined a global effort to end deforestation at its cocoa production hubs in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana....

Ivory Coast May Allow Cocoa Farms In Some Protected Forests

Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa producer, plans to legalize farming on almost 5 million acres (2 million hectares) of protected reserves to help b...

Trick Or Treat? Funds Signal Post-Halloween Chocolate Rally

Chocolates are cheaper for Halloween, but prices are likely to rebound by Christmas thanks to rising demand for cocoa beans. A global surplus sent...

Global Fairtrade Sales Reach €7.8 Billion In 2016

Fairtrade sales across more than 130 countries totalled €7.88 billion in 2016, almost five times more than only a decade before. The market that gr...

Brazilian Cocoa Exports To Europe Grow By 45%

Brazilian cocoa exports to Europe grew by 58% in value and by 45% in volume during 2016 - a trend that is set to continue this year. According to data f...