by admin | Mar 28, 2024 | Worldnews
[ad_1] Shoppers may get a bitter surprise in their Easter baskets this year. Chocolate eggs and bunnies are more expensive than ever as changing climate patterns eat into global cocoa supplies and the earnings of farmers in West Africa.About three-quarters of the...
by admin | Mar 28, 2024 | Worldnews
[ad_1] Months of rain are also being blamed for black pod disease, a fungal infection that thrives in cooler, wet and cloudy weather and causes pods to rot and harden.”While we have a good price today, that’s not it. The cacao hasn’t even produced...
by admin | Aug 15, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By Associated Press WASHINGTON: Child welfare advocates filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday asking a judge to force the Biden administration to block imports of cocoa harvested by children in West Africa that can end up in America’s most popular chocolate...
by admin | Nov 15, 2022 | Worldnews
[ad_1] For more than 40 years, Jean Baptiste Saleyo has farmed cocoa on several acres of his family’s land in Ivory Coast, a West African nation that produces almost half the world’s supply of the raw ingredient used in chocolate bars.But this year Saleyo...