Climate change threatens global cocoa production: New study highlights pollination-based solutions

Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is a vital cash-crop for four to six million small-holder farmers across the tropics, and supports a global chocolate industry valued at over USD 100 billion annually. The ...
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Cocoa grown illegally in a Nigerian rainforest heads to companies that supply major chocolate makers

OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria (AP) — Men in dusty workwear trudge through a thicket, making their way up a hill where sprawling plantations lay tucked in a Nigerian rainforest whose trees have been ...
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Nationwide cocoa shortage impacting chocolate prices

BILL. THANKS. WE’RE LIVING THROUGH A BIT OF A COCO SLUMP RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF DROUGHT IN THE REGIONS. IT GROWS IN MEANING PRICES OF THE CHOCOLATE. SOME OF YOU ENJOY ARE RISING IN COSTS. WE WENT TO ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Cocoa grown illegally in a Nigerian rainforest heads to companies that supply major chocolate makers

Cocoa grown illegally in a Nigerian rainforest heads to companies that supply major chocolate makers As the world’s demand for chocolate grows, farmers in Nigeria are moving into protected areas of a ...