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Chocolate Ingredients: Everything You Need to Know About Hazelnuts

Writer Jul 21, 2019

Hazelnuts – they’re one of the chocolate industry’s favorite ingredients. Today, we dive into the basics of hazelnut production, exploring where and how they are produced. We look at the social challenges involved and how the UTZ program…
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News

Cargill Records Challenging Annual Financial Results

Writer Jul 20, 2019 0

The Cargill group has reported its fourth quarter earnings were $476 million, down by 41% against a record figure last year of $809 million, which it attributed to challenging global market conditions. According to the agricultural…
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COCOBOD Rallies Management Staff to Turn Around Fortunes

Writer Jul 19, 2019 0

The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has called on managers and directors of the Board to work innovatively to change the fortunes of the cocoa industry. Mr Boahen Aidoo made the call when he briefed…
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Climate & Environment

Yayra Glover Advocates Organic Cocoa Farming In Ghana

Writer Jul 16, 2019 0

Mr Yayrator Glover, Chief Executive Officer of Yayra Glover Ghana Limited, an organic cocoa production company, has advocated for investments in organically cultivated cocoa to help the nation reclaim its place as the world's highest…
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Trade

Dapaah Chocolates Founder Speaks on Ghana & Ivory Coast Floor Price

Writer Jul 13, 2019 0

A cocoa farmer and founder of Dapaah Chocolates based in London, United Kingdom, Raphael Dapaah, has shared his thoughts on the new cocoa floor price spearheaded by West African neighbours, Ghana and Ivory Coast. The Dapaah Chocolates…
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Production

Motorised Slashers To Accelerate Ghana’s Cocoa Farm Mechanisation

Kojo Hayford Jul 11, 2019 0

The Chief Executive of COCOBOD, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, hinted that from October 2019 cocoa farmers would be introduced to motorised slashers to reduce the use of hoes and cutlasses in farm maintenance. He insisted, however, that such support…
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News

Ghana And Cote d’Ivoire Announce Living Income Differential For Cocoa Farmers

Writer Jul 3, 2019 0

Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire have announced a new cocoa trading pricing mechanism offering a $400 per tonne living income differential (LID) to the farmer. The Living Income Differential is introduced as a "guarantee" to the $2,600 per tonne…
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New Cocoa Floor Price: A Step Towards More Equal Trade?

Writer Jul 3, 2019 0

On 12 June 2019, the governments of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire announced a floor price of USD 2,600/ton of cocoa beans for the 2019/2020 cocoa season. They also announced a suspension of forward sales of beans for the 2020/2021 season. This…
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Sustainability

Mondelēz Projects 100% Sustainable Cocoa Sourcing by 2025

Kojo Hayford Apr 30, 2019 0

Globa chocolate giant, Mondelēz International, has projected to 100 percent sustainable for all its chocolate brands by 2015. The renewed commitment comes following promising results in Mondelez International's Cocoa Life sustainability…
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Production

Cameroon Partners Tree Global To Create Cameroon Seedling Company

Writer Apr 22, 2019 0

The government of Cameroon has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Switzerland-based organization known as Tree Global for the creation of Cameroon Seedling Company expected to transform and modernize agriculture as well as…
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