Both Ivory Coast and Ghana forward-sell the next season’s beans and set the ... [Ivory Coast] treated the cocoa sector as ...

Exporters in the Ivory Coast refused the cocoa beans because of quality problems, fueling concerns of a potential global shortage. Furthermore, a reduction in cocoa harvests from the Ivory Coast ...

LONDON (Reuters) -World cocoa and coffee prices fell on Wednesday as investors fretted that President Donald Trump's move to slap punishing tariffs on U.S. imports would damage chocolate and ...

It’s thought that English traders misspelled cacao when they brought the beans home, and so cocoa stuck ... and even used cacao beans as currency. To them, cacao beans were more valuable ...