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Edeka Launches Cocoa For Future Programme

In an attempt to address various ecological and social challenges in cocoa production, German retailer Edeka is launching a cocoa programme, "Cocoa Fo...

Global Cocoa Market Deficit Seen Widening This Season, Prices To Rise

The global cocoa market is expected to record a widening supply deficit in the current season that ends in September, and prices are seen rising as a resul...

Global Cocoa Supply Balance Seen Shifting To Deficit In 2021/22

The global cocoa supply balance is seen shifting from a surplus of 250,000 tonnes in 2020/21 to a deficit of 125,000 tonnes in 2021/22, due mainly to an ex...

Ivory Coast Sells 2021/2022 Cocoa Contracts At 'Country Discount'

The world's top cocoa producer Ivory Coast had sold 950,000 tonnes of cocoa in contracts by the end of May for the 2021/2022 season at a country discount i...

Ivory Coast, Ghana Urge Cocoa Industry To Boost Premium Payments

Ivory Coast and Ghana asked cocoa and chocolate companies last week to pay more in premiums to support farmers' wages, the head of Ivory Coast's industry r...

Nestlé Reports Progress In Combatting Deforestation In Ghana, Ivory Coast

Nestlé has reported progress in its efforts to end deforestation in the cocoa supply chain and introduce regenerative supply chains for fo...

Regulations Needed To Stem Cocoa Sector Abuses: Report

Regulations are needed to end poverty, human rights abuses and deforestation in the cocoa sector after two decades of voluntary interventions that have had...

Ghana, Ivory Coast Threaten To Suspend Cocoa Companies' Sustainability Schemes

Ghana's cocoa regulator threatened on Thursday to suspend the sustainability schemes used by major cocoa and chocolate companies to assure consumers that t...