The International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO) predicts a 10.9% global cocoa production decrease this season, with a 4.8% fall in grindings. This will result in a 374,000-ton deficit this season, up ...

From her grave a miraculous plant sprouted. It gave strength and vigor and alleviated pain and suffering. The people called it coca, in honor of that beautiful and irresistible woman. This myth ...

Cocoa was the best-performing commodity in 2024 ... at helping farmers—and a fast-moving virus that has ravaged their plants.

The $3 billion Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric power plant in Ecuador has been a public relations disaster since its inception nearly a decade ago — for its construction flaws, cost overruns ...

Diaz del Castillo, an officer with Hernan Cortez wrote: "From time to time the men of Montezuma's guard brought him, in cups of pure gold, a drink made from the cocoa-plant, which they said he ...

Cocoa powder is made from cacao beans, which come from the plant Theobroma cacao L. Cacao beans are the primary ingredient in chocolate, but they can also be ground into cocoa powder. The powder ...