Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

The EU, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana and the cocoa sector have today agreed to step up work on making cocoa more sustainable. At today’s high-level event of the sustainable cocoa...

Making cocoa growing in West Africa more sustainable and resilient... this is the task set for the Cocoa4Future project, coordinated by CIRAD and funded by the EU DeSIRA programme and the Agence Française...

Cocoa growing is still one of the main causes of deforestation in West Africa. However, nowadays, using agroforestry, the value chain is helping to reintroduce trees into the landscape.

The announcement of the arrival of coronavirus in their country is raising concerns among Ivorian cocoa planters. Although, in the short term, these planters continue to be able to feed...

Cocoa prices have skyrocketed, following climate shocks and disease outbreaks in West Africa. India has reported new figures on its agricultural domestic support...

Schmidt Agricola is a large agricultural company producing soybeans, corn and cotton in Bahia, Brazil, one of the country's new-frontier agricultural areas fit for large-scale, high-tech farming...

The cocoa bean’s long journey from the farms of Côte d’Ivoire to the chocolate factories of Europe is getting shorter – thanks to a new digital system for certifying that the beans are...

The global food import bill is expected to increase by 2.2 percent from the previous year to more than $2 trillion in 2024, pushed up by higher prices for cocoa, coffee and tea...

Chocolate connoisseurs were hit by a 10% increase in the price of their favorite sweet this Easter as the world’s largest cocoa producers, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, found themselves...

Swiss cocoa processing giant, Barry Callebaut, has outlined a new set of sustainability targets in its latest Forever Chocolate report, including steps to transition...