Dry periods never used to last this long before,” says Célestin Oura, a farmer in southwestern Côte d’Ivoire. “The dry season ...

Work carried out at the International Cocoa Quarantine Centre in Arborfield, part of the University of Reading, is helping to ...

What's good for you may surprise youDark chocolate (center) is nutritionally better than ruby, white, or milk chocolate.By ...

Cocoa has long provided a lifeline in Ivory Coast but adverse weather and plant diseases have hurt harvests in recent years ...

“The drought means we are losing 60 percent of our cocoa plants. I have seen a drastic decline in income, as have all the farmers in my farming cooperative,” Essah-Mensah told Grist ...

The prized Theobroma cacao plant - which chocolate is made from - is under a dual threat from both climate change and disease. Dr James Richardson, a research associate at Royal Botanic Garden ...

Phys.org shares researchers focused on fine aroma cacao, a unique variety of cacao with a distinctive flavor profile. Fine ...