Ghana

EU Backs Cocoa Price Rise To Make Production More Sustainable

Higher prices are needed to ensure cocoa production becomes more sustainable, a senior European Union official said on Tuesday, backing plans by top grower...

Ghana Yet To Decide On Cocoa Farmgate Price: Cocobod

Ghana will not make a decision on a cocoa farmgate price until an industry committee meets to discuss it in September, a spokesman for the Ghana Cocoa Boar...

Ivory Coast, Ghana Add 'Living Income' Cocoa Premium To Fight Poverty

Top global cocoa producers Ivory Coast and Ghana have imposed a fixed 'living income differential' of $400 a tonne on all cocoa contracts sold by either co...

Chocolate Maker Mars Backs Ivory Coast, Ghana Cocoa Floor Price

US food maker Mars Inc. supports a decision by Ivory Coast and Ghana to set a floor price for their cocoa exports, a senior executive told Reuters on Wedne...

Ivory Coast And Ghana Team Up For Greater Share Of Chocolate Wealth

Kouakou Kinimo is a pretty typical Ivory Coast cocoa farmer. He works a small holding. At 52, he's roughly the mean age for a West African grower...

Nestlé Initiates R&D Innovation Challenge In Sub-Saharan Africa

Nestlé has launched a research and development (R&D) innovation challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa to boost local entrepreneurship. The prog...

Nestlé Shares Action Plan For Sustainable Cocoa Supply Chain

Nestlé has outlined an action plan to curb deforestation and restore forests in its cocoa supply chain in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Th...

Barry Callebaut, Dutch Partners Launch Sustainable Mass-Market Chocolate

Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut on Thursday signed a partnership with Dutch retailer Albert Heijn to make its private-label chocolate fully traceable...