LONDON/ACCRA — 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 ...

Cocoa powder, the ground cacao you get when you remove some of the cacao butter from the processed cacao bean, comes in two forms: natural and Dutch-process. Dutch-process cocoa powder is milder on ...

Cameroon is pushing further into cocoa processing, adding new industrial capacity as it seeks to capture more value from one of its flagship ...

The Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) has welcomed Cabinet’s directive that at least 50 per cent of Ghana’s cocoa beans should ...

Chocolate prices will likely climb even higher as West African cocoa processing plants can no longer afford to buy the bean. According to Reuters, state-owned Transcao, one of Cote d’Ivoire’s largest ...

Ghana Limited has proposed a set of measures, including increased local processing and strengthened forward sales strategies, ...

For the better part of two decades, the global cocoa market was a picture of quiet predictability. Then, in a blistering eighteen-month window, the script flipped entirely.As a recent deep-dive by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cocoa powder is an essential baking ingredient. Our brownies, cakes and cookies would be nothing without it. The thing is, though, ...