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Cocoa: Look beyond prices to value chain

When cocoa prices fell below $4000 in February 2026, a decline of more than 60 per cent from the peak it recorded barely a year earlier, the market reaction was just as revealing as the rally that ...
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 ...
President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday declared that Nigeria would no longer export raw cocoa beans while importing finished chocolate products, unveiling a plan to transform the country’s cocoa industry ...
BOI secures €60 million EIB facility to expand cocoa processing, boost exports, create jobs and strengthen Nigeria's value ...
The federal government has announced that Nigeria and other cocoa-producing African countries have agreed to deepen ...
SCHIPHOL, THE NETHERLANDS — Cargill announced on Nov. 2 that it has completed a $100 million expansion of its cocoa processing facilities in Yopougon, Côte d’Ivoire, a project that makes the Yopougon ...
Just as we have seen an increase in the number of microbreweries making specialty beers, the market for chocolate has also developed, so there are more high-end chocolate manufacturers who are trying ...
It is widely believed that when foods undergo processing, their health benefits are reduced. But that is not true for cocoa, according to a Penn State-led team of researchers, who conducted a new ...
The Bank of Industry (BOI) says it has secured a €60 million credit facility from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to ...