Long-term supply agreements emerging in Dominican Republic cocoa sector A 5-year USAID-financed initiative to provide support to increase the yield and quality of cocoa production in the Dominican Republic has been anno... 12/11/2011
Executive Brief Update 2011: Cocoa sector About this updateThis brief was updated in July 2011. The original executive brief was published in May 2008 and is available on request from agrit... 01/11/2011
Price volatility is likely to plague cocoa market According to the bank ABN Amro, the slowdown in consumption growth, in the light of the implementation of austerity measures, mean that ‘cocoa pric... 06/09/2011
Kraft Foods announces launch of fair-trade Cadbury chocolate bar in South Africa The American food company Kraft Foods announced in June that it is launching a fair-trade Dairy Milk chocolate bar on the South African market, bea... 09/08/2011
Quality issues seen as critical in PNG cocoa sector The CEO of Papua New Guinea’s (PNG’s) Commodity Board, Barnabas Toreu, has stressed the importance of getting to grips with the eradication of the... 09/08/2011
Jamaican cocoa farmers seeking to improve returns by direct marketing Jamaica is seeking to diversify the destination of its cocoa exports beyond France, Belgium, Spain and Switzerland, according to press reports. In... 10/06/2011
Côte d’Ivoire cocoa export ban continues On 23 January, the internationally recognised President of Côte d’Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, announced a one-month ban on cocoa exports as a means... 03/04/2011
Ghana’s cocoa push pays off as region’s production rises Government investment and a one-third increase in the fixed price paid to farmers are major factors in a big rise forecast in Ghana’s cocoa crop fo... 01/12/2010
Commodity fund investment raises issue of functioning of cocoa supply chain ICTSD has posted an article noting the high price of cocoa and the activities of a London-based commodities fund, Armajaro, which ‘recently bought... 26/09/2010
New International Cocoa Agreement prioritises small farmers and fair pricing On 19 June 2010, a major meeting of cocoa-exporting and -importing countries was convened under the auspices of the UN Conference on Trade and Deve... 07/08/2010