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Ivory Coast Cocoa Regulator Scraps Stockpile Exemption For Bean Grinders

Ivory Coast cocoa sector regulator will not allow bean grinders to accumulate stocks beyond authorised limits during the main October to March harvest to e...

Ivory Coast Cocoa Arrivals Seen Down 28.5% In The First Three Months Of Season

Cocoa volumes arriving at Ivory Coast ports are expected to drop 28.5% year-on-year in the first three months of the 2023/2024 season due to erratic weathe...

Ivory Coast Cocoa Sector Predicts More Smuggling As Farmgate Price Disappoints

Ivory Coast cocoa farmers and exporters believe the lower-than-expected price the world's top exporter fixed for their beans this season could fuel smuggli...

Ivory Coast Expects 20% Drop In Cocoa Production In 2023/24, Sources Say

Ivory Coast's cocoa production is expected to fall by as much as 20% in the upcoming 2023/24 season compared to recent years due to poor weather, putting f...

In Africa's Fields, A Plan To Pay Fair Wages For Chocolate Withers

A flagship programme launched in 2019 that promised a living wage to growers in top cocoa producers Ivory Coast and Ghana has left many worse off, data and...

One In Two Products Sold By Barry Callebaut Contains 100% Sustainable Cocoa Products: Report

The proportion of products containing 100% sustainable cocoa or chocolate sold by Barry Callebaut has increased to 49.4%, from 42.6% in the year before, ac...

Ivory Coast, Ghana Cocoa Regulators To Boycott Industry Meetings Over Price Dispute

Ivory Coast and Ghana's cocoa regulators will boycott industry meetings in Brussels next week due to a dispute over pricing that they say has seen multinat...

Ghana's Cocobod Signs $1.13bn Loan For 2022/23

Ghana's cocoa regulator, Cocobod, signed a $1.13 billion syndicated loan with international banks to finance purchases for the upcoming season, which is du...