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

Dimitra is offering AI-driven apps and IoT-based sensors to cocoa farmers to track the conditions of the crop.

Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is a vital cash-crop for four to six million small-holder farmers across the tropics, and supports ...

For hundreds of years, people have turned to chocolate to boost heart health. Back in the 1500s, the indigenous Aztec people ...

I love flowers and chocolate, too! Why choose between two favorites when you can add chocolate to the garden? OK, it’s not ...

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

Underinvestment, old cocoa trees, bad weather, and diseases are impacting production. And then there's the investor speculation that's making the price issue even worse because it has increased ...

The productivity of cacao trees decreases ... onto the existing older cacao trees. An international team led by scientists of the University of Göttingen found that cacao grafting is a useful measure ...

Some Ivory Coast and Ghana cocoa farmers have reported that cocoa trees are beginning to suffer the effects of the seasonal dry and dusty Harmattan winds, with leaves turning yellow and the ...