Climate change

The world's second largest cocoa producer Ghana is looking to delay delivery of up to 350,000 tons of beans to next season due to poor crops, five sources told Reuters in a further worsening of the outlook for the global chocolate industry.…
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In a significant shift within the global cocoa industry, Ecuador is poised to overtake Ghana as the world's second-largest cocoa producer, according to data from the International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO). This potential shake-up…
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Cocoa futures extended their surge to a record in New York as a shortfall gripped the market, threatening to make chocolate and other confectionery costlier. Prices have doubled during the past year as growers in West Africa — who produce…
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The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has revealed that over 500,000 hectares of cocoa farms in Ghana have been lost to the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD), posing a major threat to the country’s…
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Irrigation in agriculture, and cocoa farming in particular, is a critical activity in several regions of the world. Most of the world's cocoa beans are produced by rain-fed agriculture which dictates the two production cycles in a year.…
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Galamsey - the illegal mining of gold and other precious minerals - has become a severe environmental and social issue in many cocoa farming communities across the country. The unregulated mining activities have not only caused vast…
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"Cocoa farming is very hard work but only rewards you with poverty," 32-year-old cocoa farmer, Uriah Nkrumah declared with vigour. Nkrumah was explaining the reason many of Ghana's youth are abandoning the once esteemed occupation of…
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Nestlé has announced a partnership with the Africa Food Prize to help accelerate the transformation of food systems in Africa. The global food giant sees the move as a way of strengthening the continent’s food security and building…
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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…
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A raging incidence of the black pod disease is threatening cocoa crop yield over large swathes of farms across cocoa-producing regions in Ghana. The outbreak, farmers told Cocoa Post is spreading at an alarming rate exacerbated by heavy…
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