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

Thursday closed up +375 (+3.75%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25) closed up +164 (+2.05%). Cocoa prices rallied sharply ...

It will be harder to find sweet deals on chocolate this Valentine’s Day. In fact, the cost of chocolate might put a bitter ...

Rising cocoa prices, driven by climate change, are reshaping Valentine’s Day chocolates. Extreme heat and erratic rainfall in ...

Expect to pay about 10% to 20% more for chocolate this Valentine's Day than last year, one agricultural economist said.

Climate change threatens global cocoa and chocolate production, but a new study highlights a promising solution—pollination.

Prices of cocoa surged by 136% between July 2022 and February 2024, and climate extremes in West Africa’s cocoa belt, which produces 70% of the world’s cocoa, are partly to blame.

a cocoa grower in Ghana, described climate change as one of the most serious problems affecting production throughout West ...

Money can’t buy you love — or as much cocoa as it used to, with adverse weather denting West African crops and chocolatiers ...

Chocolate prices are up and expected to increase throughout the year after catastrophic weather and crop disease in West Africa reduced cocoa supplies to historic lows. “We see the chocolate ...

Another cocoa harvest in West Africa has come up short, leading to the worst deficit in decades. That means higher prices for ...

Years of bad weather in the key cocoa-producing region of West Africa and the cocoa swollen shoot virus disease have hampered production. In the last two years, the cost of manufacturing chocolate ...