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Ghanaian Chocolatiers Attend WineX 2022 in South Africa
Eight Ghanaian chocolatiers have been selected and sponsored by the Ghana Export Promotion Authority to attend WineX 2022 in South Africa.
WineX is South Africa’s premier wine festival that annually brings together winemakers and wine…
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Fairafric Pledges Delish Chocolate Treat For 2022 Ghana Cocoa Dinner Guests
Fairafric, a Ghanaian origin chocolate brand, is partnering with the organisers of Ghana Cocoa Dinner to treat guests at this year's edition to new additions to its celebrated chocolate product line.
Captains and value chain actors of…
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Barry Callebaut Partners Attelli In First Production Plant In Africa
The Barry Callebaut Group has announced the signing of a long-term agreement with Attelli SARL, a distributor and confectionery manufacturer based in Casablanca, Morocco.
Attelli, which is part of the French…
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Less Than 1% Of World Chocolate Produced In Africa
With 70% of the world’s cocoa coming from West Africa, it comes as a surprise that less than 1% of world chocolate is produced at the origin.
This gives cocoa producers, especially smallholder farmers, only a meagre share in the…
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How Will Lab-Grown Chocolate Impact West Africa’s Cocoa Farmers?
They call it the future of chocolate.
It’s edible, melts, breaks, and even tastes like chocolate except it is grown in a food lab facility without using a single cocoa bean.
While the production of non-cocoa chocolate is still in its…
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UK Startup WNWN Food Lab’s Cocoa-Free Chocolate Goes On Sale
Wnwn Food Labs, a UK based food ingredient startup, says its cocoa-free chocolate will go on sale in London effective 18th May 2022.
The company claims its 'world's first' chocolate uses a combination of barley and carob to successfully…
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Chocolate Scorecard 2022 Demands Cocoa Farmers Be Paid Properly
A whopping 1.56 million underage children allegedly continue to be caught up in child labour in cocoa farms and allied setups globally, despite earlier promises by cocoa and chocolate big players to fight the canker.
According to the…
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Fairafric’s 57% Baobab Moringa Flavor Celebrates Ghana’s Independence
Ghanaian-German social enterprise, fairafric Ghana, has unveiled the first of three exciting new flavours of its Made In Africa chocolate brand.
The freshly released variant named 57% Baobab Moringa pays tribute to Ghana's independence…
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Forget China! Germany Is Replacing Cocoa From Chocolate In 14 Years
The year 2021 has been quite eventful for the cocoa and chocolate industry, especially in the area of innovation.
First was the viral China cocoa export to Belgium that got African cocoa-producing nations gripped with anxiety.
Then…
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ABCDE Africa Calls On Youth To Venture Into Chocolate Making
A non-governmental organisation, African Business Centre for Developing Education (ABCDE) has observed this year’s International Youth Day with a conference for a cross-section of Ghanaian youngsters on Youth Innovation in chocolate-making.…
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