National Chocolate Week kicks-off on 8th Feb: Ghanaians urged to eat more cocoa to fight COVID-19
In Accra on Thursday, February 4, the National Chocolate Week 2021 was launched under the theme “Eat Chocolate, Stay Healthy ...
Tag: Cocoa
Why Ghana & Ivory Coast should exit Federation of Cocoa Commerce permanently
We recently heard of Ghana and Ivory Coast allegedly noticing Hershey's invading of the $400/t Living Income Differential levy agreed ...
Why Ghana and Ivory Coast are canceling Cocoa Sustainability schemes run by Hershey
Ghana and Ivory Coast, the world’s largest producers of cocoa which produces two-thirds of the world’s cocoa, have decided to ...
How much Ghanaian cocoa farmers earn and why we need to announce, “A Cocoa Emergency”!!!
To set the context right, the Cocoa-Chocolate industry is worth US$131bn yet when you break it down, the small holder ...
Is Fairtrade FAIR to Cocoa Farmers?
For the past decades, we have seen acclaimed sustainable certification organisations, telling the whole world that there is the need ...
Ghana’s Cocoa juice ‘marries’ Bolivian cocoa beans in world’s first 100% cocoa fruit chocolate
Swiss chocolate manufacturer, Felchlin, has unveiled a new couverture made 100 percent from the Cocoa fruit, with no extra ingredient. ...
This is how the USD600m Cocoa Syndicated loan is to be spent
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) earlier in the week, unveiled the $600-million cocoa syndicated loan facility to revamp the West African ...
Cocoa farmers to benefit from Digitized Weighing System; says Cocobod
Cocoa farmers in the country have been assured of the commencement of the Digitized Weighing Scale system. The assurance was ...
Cocoa beans export increase marginally
Ghana has exported 596,000 tonnes of cocoa beans as at the end of January, 2020. Figures reflect a marginal increase ...
Barry Callebaut to take 500,000 Farmers out of Poverty by 2025
Barry Callebaut has reported the under-stated achievements in their recent Forever Chocolate Report for 2018/19 51% sustainably sourced ingredientsOver 176,000 ...