Any chocolate lover can probably tell you that cacao is the most important ingredient in any chocolate confection. But not ...

Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and other climate impacts are throttling cocoa production and driving up chocolate ...

Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in West Africa, which supplies around 70% of the world's cacao, are ...

Hands of worker wearing gloves unwrap cacao pods to remove cocoa beans cutting a fresh cacao pod reveals cocoa white seed with fresh white cocoa seed in the tank. Hands of worker wearing gloves unwrap ...

The insects responsible for pollinating cacao’s tiny flowers are, themselves, also tiny, in order to access the flower’s reproductive structures. Biting midges from the Ceratopogonidae family and gall ...

GhanaWeb published an article revealing that Ghana's first cocoa seeds were not swallowed by Tetteh Quarshie. This discovery was made after GhanaWeb's People and Places team visited Tetteh Quarshie’s ...

But chocolate continues to face a significant challenge: Climate change is threatening cacao production ... the pods are harvested by hand and then split open to extract the seeds, which undergo ...

Chocolate prices surge in South Korea due to climate change impacting cocoa supply Cocoa futures reach record highs amid ...

But all he could keep in there were six cocoa pods; a plant he had discovered in ... Tetteh Quarshie made an unsuccessful attempt at planting the first seed in Accra, as the soil type - mostly ...