COCOA POST

So, on the 6th of July 2020 and on the 29th of March 2021, I published an article titled “Is Fairtrade Fair to Cocoa Farmers?” in The Cocoa Post, Ghana Talks Business and Business and Financial Times. Fairtrade Africa did the dutiful,…
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Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) in partnership with Fairtrade Africa has held a two-day training workshop for some staff of its Research Department on Fairtrade standards and sustainability. The training workshop sought to enhance the…
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The international media and Ghana's local media have been awash with news of China's first-ever export of cocoa beans to Europe, precisely Belgium. According to the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS), the first…
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Cameroon loses 40 to 50% of its cocoa seedlings in nursery plants every year because of climate change due to which dry seasons are increasingly longer. This was revealed by Jean Claude Akouafane, director-general of the Cocoa Development…
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Hundreds of tonnes of cocoa beans are stuck in a shed at Aboaso in the Juaboso District of the Western North Region because they have not been purchased. Obviously livid local cocoa farmers have threatened to give up their farmlands to…
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There is a great opportunity for chocolatiers who process their chocolates at the country of origin to present their products for an award in Paris this May 2021. The AVPA Chocolates Processed at Origin contest will pave way for almost…
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Six cocoa cooperatives in Ivory Coast have succeeded in creating their own data system through a partnership with agricultural technology firms and Fairtrade. The data system pilot project in the West African nation is aimed at…
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News about China exporting cocoa to Belgium has unsettled many in Ghana, the world's second-largest cocoa beans exporter. Concerns are that the Chinese, with capital and technology, will outcompete Africa's cocoa producers whose…
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Lack of data is the key setback in Cocoa production and marketing in Uganda. Emmanuel Lubega, the Uganda-South Sudan national coordinator at the East African Business Council-EABC, argues that even when hundreds of farmers are involved…
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Ghana has been growing cocoa for about one and half centuries. Once the world's number one producer of cocoa beans, it lost that spot to neighbouring Ivory Coast. The nature of the country's cocoa economy has barely changed since the…
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