Let’s be honest — most of us love chocolate. We enjoy it in ice cream, cakes, candy bars, and chocolate chip cookies, and ...

Ivory Coast cocoa farmers are warning of a looming crisis: without financial support and fairer markets, cocoa yields will be “destroyed” by 2030. The West African nation is the biggest producer of ...

As a way to share these ideas, he and his wife Kerry founded the Big Web Institute. Through the institute they hope to ...

As long as there is chocolate, there will be happiness.​” But how much does the average person really know about chocolate? The Morton Arboretum’s annual Chocolate Weekend expo, taking place Jan. 31 ...

Seamus Blackley is best known for creating the Xbox game console. Now he has a new mission: to start a Los Angeles chocolate company. The challenge? Cacao trees don’t grow in the Southern California ...

In the cultivation of organic cacao, many factors determine the yield. An international research team has now identified important players and their combined effects. It's not possible to grow cacao ...

Four years ago, Antony Mugambi, an IT expert based in Meru County, embarked on a journey that would transform both his life and the environment around him. His venture into cacao farming, a crop ...

The founders of Lonohana Estate Chocolate wanted to do more than just grow and sell chocolate in Hawai‘i — they wanted to do so in the best way possible. “I wanted to create a vertically integrated ...

It's not possible to grow cacao without insects - that's logical. After all, they ensure that the flowers are pollinated and that the valuable cacao fruits, a sought-after material for the food ...