"[T]he cocoa industry faces severe human rights issues, including child labor and forced labor driven by extreme poverty." ...

A women-led fish farming initiative in Colombia’s Putumayo department offers an alternative to the coca economy, challenging both environmental damage and traditional gender roles. Wedged ...

Policies designed to occupy and populate the Peruvian Amazon began about seventy years ago with the construction of a trunk ...

Agroforestry systems, which integrate trees and shrubs into farming, are vital to achieving sustainable cocoa production in West Africa where 70% of the world cocoa is produced. Climate change ...

The International Cocoa Organisation has released its latest revised estimates for the last two years of world production, grindings, and stocks of cocoa beans, revealing that volume supply has ...

Prices have more than tripled this year, the result of increasing global demand and the effects of climate change ...

According to the foundation, the primary objective is to help inmates rehabilitate by engaging them in cocoa farming. This way, when they are discharged, they can transition into agricultural work, ...

Mahama said. "We will see how to restructure it (COCOBOD)." The COCOBOD controls all aspects of cocoa production in Ghana – from seedlings to jute bag supplies for packing beans for exports.

This sustained upward movement highlights ongoing supply pressures and increasing global demand. Cocoa production in Nigeria is forecast to grow by up to 10% in 2024, driven by elevated international ...