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Cocoa prices are plunging. Why then is chocolate still so expensive?Producers and analysts expect cheaper cocoa to only start feeding through to supermarket aisles in the second half of next year, and even t...- What's missing from your favourite chocolate bar? It may be chocolate.Rising cocoa prices, driven by climate change and other factors, have led candy companies to reformulate their products. This involves repl...
- Major US candy company files for bankruptcy just one week before the biggest candy day of the yearCandyWarehouse.com, a Texas-based online candy seller, has filed for bankruptcy. The company faces financial difficulties with more debts t...
- Butter made from Carbon? Lab-grown butter backed by Bill Gates to hit shelves by 2027; chocolates coming this holiday seasonSavor, a Bill Gates-backed startup, is revolutionizing food production with carbon-based butter made from carbon dioxide and hydrogen, elim...
- After cocoa, higher hazelnut prices to hit chocolatiersTurkey’s hazelnut harvest — the world’s largest — is expected to fall by over a third this year after severe spring frost, according to the...
- Chocolate love has its price on Valentine's Day as cocoa costs make hearts shudder, not flutterWith the price of cocoa beans setting unprecedented records on the commodities market, it will certainly turn the gift of love into a bigge...
- Chocolate love has its price on Valentine's Day as cocoa costs make hearts shudder, not flutterThe price of cocoa beans has witnessed a dramatic surge, impacting the cost of St Valentine chocolates this year. Factors such as climate c...
- Scientists warn of climate threat to chocolateA new report found that "climate change, due primarily to burning oil, coal, and methane gas, is causing hotter temperatures to become more...
- Chocolate's future could hinge on success of growing cocoa not just in the tropics, but in the labCalifornia Cultured, a plant cell culture company, is growing cocoa from cell cultures at a facility in West Sacramento, California, with p...
- Sweet Profits, Bitter Reality: Who gains the most from the cocoa price surge?The cocoa industry is facing significant shifts as cocoa prices soar, driven by poor harvests in West Africa. While prices have surged to r...
- Cocoa Conundrum: Chocolates and problems of the commodity cycleThe cocoa industry has faced challenges like price fluctuations and market manipulation, causing concerns about chocolate's future. Despite...
- It's a bittersweet Easter for chocolate lovers but big companies see profitsWith exports from the Ivory Coast, the world's top producer, down by a third in recent months, the global price of cocoa has risen sharply....
- Chocolate could get even pricier if Africa’s cocoa crop flopsAnalysts at Rabobank and Marex expect West African output to drop in the 2023-24 season. Marex forecasts the global deficit at 279,000 tons...
- Reversing the carbon cycle: How chocolate could counter climate change?Amazonia, the biochar factory in Hamburg is one of the largest in Europe, takes delivery of the used cocoa shells via a network of grey pip...
- How chocolate could counter climate changeThe biochar industry could potentially capture 2.6 billion of the 40 billion tonnes of CO2 currently produced by humanity each year, althou...
- Communities versus commodities: The real dark side of chocolate involves more than what meets the eyeChocolate companies need to be more open about how they will source and support change, while growers and governments need to be clear abou...
- Nestle SA to invest $3.6 billion on climate change: Global CEO Mark SchneiderThe maker of Nescafe coffee and KitKat chocolate said it would plant 200 million trees over the next decade to help farmers and suppliers i...
- How making chocolate is adding up to deforestation, emissions & climate changeDemand for cacao is rising so fast that production in West Africa, which accounts for 70% of global output, has been unable to keep up.
- Protesters seek logjam at Warsaw climate negotiations to end soonThe two-week long climate negotiations at Warsaw are in the final stretch, with ministers working to beat the clock and build a consensus o...
- Cadbury develops chocolates that don't melt even in scorching heatCadbury engineers have set out the method for making breakthrough "temperature-tolerant chocolate" in an 8,000-word patent application, the...
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