The chocolate industry is seeing unprecedented times, with effects rippling all the way to grocery store shelves. This is how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. cocoa growing on tree - Kriangkrai Thitimakorn/Getty Images Chocolate is a universally beloved foodstuff, so it comes as no ...

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 ...

Cacao is the raw, unprocessed part of the cacao tree used to produce chocolate — and there is no question it's a true treasure. Unfortunately, most chocolate manufacturers today only seek out the ...

TANJUNG REJO, Indonesia (AP) — The loud whirr of a chainsaw sounds through the forest as a small group of farmers gathers around a tree filled with red seed pods. With one slow stroke, a severed ...

The Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture, John Dumelo, has appealed to cocoa farmers across the country not to destroy their cocoa trees following the recent decline in producer prices, assuring ...

In Cameroon, the astonishing surge in the price of cocoa has Banyuy Elsie Kinyuy planning the next chapter of her life. In November, the 57-year-old high school tutor bought a 3-hectare (7.4-acre) ...

If you've taken a trip through the seasonal aisle at the grocery store lately, you may have noticed a change in price for some of those Easter basket fillers. It's happening because the world price ...

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 ...