COCOA POST

Made in Ghana cocoa fruit beverage brand - Koa - has received key international recognition for its socially responsible business just five years after the establishment of its innovative cocoa fruit venture. The Swiss-Ghanaian…
Read More...

A Deputy Executive Director of the Cocoa Health & Extension Division (CHED) of Ghana Cocoa Board, Kwame Owusu-Ansah, has picked the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2022 edition of the Ghana Cocoa Dinner held in Accra. The award is…
Read More...

Cocoa farmers in Ghana have called on the government to mandate financial institutions to finance agriculture as part of their credit portfolio. This they believe will enable them to access funds needed to increase output. This call is…
Read More...

No one equates fun to the cocoa industry as the production and trading of cocoa beans and value-added cocoa products have always been all business. But stakeholders let their hair down to relax and enjoy good music and some comedic…
Read More...

Work on the EUR 5.36 million agro-food processing project in Kara, 423 kilometres north of Lomé, the capital city of Togo, is making steady progress. In the pilot agropole supported by African Development Bank (AfDB), engineers and…
Read More...

The Chief Executive Officer of SEND Ghana, Siapha Kamara, has stated that pricing cocoa is a human rights issue. Mr. Kamara was speaking at a two-day conference on Living Income and Human Rights in Ghana’s Cocoa Sector organized by SEND…
Read More...

The United Kingdom (UK) has announced an increase in its climate change adaptation financial support to the most vulnerable African countries that bear the brunt of climate change. Speaking alongside African leaders at COP27 in the…
Read More...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and partners have launched a $520 million Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones(SAPZ) programme to transform Nigeria’s agriculture. This move has been necessitated by AfDB’s commitment to ending…
Read More...

Barry Callebaut has redesigned the making of its chocolate to identify the special qualities of each cocoa bean and bring out the nuances of flavour. This is known as the Cocoa Cultivation & Craft principle (CCC). The company achieved…
Read More...

Chocolate giant, Mondelez International, is set to inject an additional $600 million into its cocoa sustainability programme, Cocoa Life, as it marks 10 years of the intervention. "We are proud to announce the next phase of our Cocoa Life…
Read More...