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Cocoa farmers in Ghana have warned that the country could lose more productive cocoa farms to illegal mining if cocoa prices remain unchanged. This alarm by cocoa farmers comes ahead of this year's Cocoa Day (October 1), which marks the…
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Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will lead stakeholders at the 2022 National Cocoa Festival to discuss sustainable ways to boost the cocoa industry value chain in the country, the Guardian has reported. The annual festival is…
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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 early…
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The Auditor-General of Ghana, Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu, has raised concerns about the Ghana Cocoa Board’s (Cocobod) increasing debt burden – which stood at approximately GH¢12.30billion as of September 2020. The debt accumulation emanates…
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World Confectionery Conference 2022 opens to the general public in Brussels, Belgium, on September 9. The one-day event will assemble delegates and suppliers from across the world under one roof. Ahead of the event, organisers have been…
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Fairtrade Africa has reviewed its impact across the continent through the use of Fairtrade premiums and other programmatic and project interventions. These programmatic and project interventions as well as the Fairtrade premium were noted…
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The 2021/22 Light Cocoa Crop Season comes to an end by the close of business on September 8, a press release by Ghana Cocoa Board, COCOBOD has stated. In a statement released to the media, Cocobod notes that “In order to assist the…
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A joint platform of Ghanaian and Ivorian Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and cocoa farmers has made a strong call for reforms in the international pricing mechanism for cocoa to guarantee a living income for farmers. The group has…
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Major cocoa buyers have agreed to pay a premium and back a price floor on cocoa sold by Ivory Coast and Ghana as part of an agreement reached on Friday to combat poverty among farmers. Cocoa industry players will back a fixed "living income…
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Leading multi-national chocolate companies and key industry actors have assembled in Accra, the capital of Ghana, for crunch discussions bordering on cocoa trade at the instance of the Cote d'Ivoire Ghana Cocoa Initiative (CIGCI). A…
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