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The world’s chocolate industry could be in for a turbulent ride as the two biggest cocoa producers set down demands to pay higher prices.
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With an attentive eye, Henrique Almeida watches a technician carefully open a hundred cocoa pods, while another worker on the plantation collects samples in...
World
Cocoa prices rose sharply on Wednesday after key producers Ivory Coast and Ghana threatened to stop selling their production to buyers unwilling to meet...
Tech & Science
The cocoa bean is a rich source of flavanols. These are a class of natural compounds that could have neuroprotective effects. The question that...
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Cocoa crops in the world’s top producer, Ivory Coast, are being ravaged by caterpillars but authorities are playing down the new scourge, saying they...
World
“At five years old, I went to work in the fields with my dad. Today, my children go to school,” said Peter, a cocoa...
Life
Results from the study led by postgraduate research student Rishikesh Kankesh Patel have been published in The Journal of the International Society of Sports...
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Some 4,000 child victims of “slavery and exploitation” were removed from cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast between 2012 and 2014, authorities fighting child labour...
Life
The scientists sequenced the DNA of Theobroma cacao. The Maya reportedly domesticated this variety of Theobroma cacao, Criollo, around 3,000 years ago in Central...