Ivory Coast

The Ivorian Platform for Sustainable Cocoa (PICD), an umbrella group for cocoa cooperatives and civil society organisations, has welcomed the 50% increment in the cocoa farmgate price. The Ivorian government and the regulator…
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Ivory Coast is set to announce an increment in the cocoa farmgate price by 50%, raising it from 1000 to 1500 CFA francs ($2.47) per kilogramme. President Alassane Ouattara is programmed to make the official announcement on Tuesday, April…
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Major African cocoa plants in Ivory Coast and Ghana have stopped or cut processing because they cannot afford to buy beans, four trading sources said, meaning chocolate prices around the world are likely to soar. Chocolate-makers have…
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The International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO) has projected global cocoa output for the 2023/24 season to shrink by 11% or more than 547,000 metric tonnes. The latest forecast published by the organisation is contained in the production…
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The Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC) of Ivory Coast has helped the national police to seize three trucks loaded with 1,500 bags of cocoa beans on the border with Guinea, the regulator's managing director said on Friday. Low farmgate prices…
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This year, 2024, we are heading towards two major events in the cocoa sector, which will take stock of what has been achieved and what remains to be done to deliver sustainable cocoa at scale. The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) Partnership…
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A new report by environment groups is said to reveal, for the first time, how increasing global demand for cashews has driven a rapid expansion of cashew orchards in Côte d'Ivoire, causing nature loss and threatening food security. Côte…
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Ivory Coast's cocoa regulator has said it is struggling to sell cocoa export contracts for the 2024/25 season with multinational cocoa buying companies demanding lower prices, contrary to current market prices occasioned by the prevailing…
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An unprecedented scale of cross-border cocoa smuggling activities has rocked Ghana over the last few months. The alarming loss of the country's crop output to illegal merchants said to be operating around the borders with Togo, Burkina…
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GCB Cocoa, a Malaysia-owned cocoa and chocolate ingredients supplier, has opened its first Africa cocoa processing plant in the Ivorian port city of San Pedro, AIP has reported. The San Pedro factory is expected to allow GCB direct…
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