Farmers in the region have struggled with heat, disease and unusual rainfall in recent years. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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

The rise of cocoa prices will hit big food businesses like Unilever, Mondelez and Nestle with each business citing concerns ...

The traditional Valentine Day's gift of chocolates is under threat from climate change, campaigners have warned.

A lack of rain in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa-growing regions could delay the start of the April-to-September mid-crop, ...

Climate change drove weeks of crop-withering temperatures last year in the West African countries that underpin the world's ...

Sustainability certificates such as Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance and Cocoa Life promise to improve the livelihoods of small ...

This worrying trend isn't limited to Brazil. Across West Africa, responsible for 70 per cent of global cacao production, and in other cocoa-growing areas like the Americas and Southeast Asia ...

McCollum explains that in the predominant business model, farmers in the Global South grow the cocoa, and companies in the Global North make the chocolate. To get cocoa from the Global South to ...

Climate change drove weeks of crop-withering temperatures last year in the west African countries that underpin the world's ...