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What’s haunting Halloween chocolate? The climate pressures behind Halloween’s sweetest tradition- Under 4-year project from 2022 to 2026, Trong Duc Cocoa in Vietnam began feeding 5,000 tons of discarded cocoa pods into a gasifier. Now, the waste helps dry fresh beans in 7 days instead of 15 during the rainy season
- Christmas chocolates still costly despite falling cocoa prices – here’s why
- 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...20 Dec, 2025, 03.23 PM IST
- 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...08 Aug, 2025, 11.52 PM IST
- Can Indian craft chocolate go global and compete with the world's finest?Indian craft chocolate is growing. It aims to compete with global brands. Brands focus on local cacao from Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and K...24 May, 2025, 11.06 PM IST
- Cash crunch stalls cocoa and coffee trading around the worldA surge in cocoa and coffee futures prices has strained traders' finances, hindering global shipments. Rising costs and financing difficult...13 Mar, 2025, 09.06 AM IST
- Backlash erupts over Europe's anti-deforestation lawThe European Union's new environmental law aimed at protecting endangered forests by tracing supply chains faces global pushback.23 Sep, 2024, 09.55 AM IST
- 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...23 Jun, 2024, 11.17 AM IST
- Chocolate prices are rising everywhere as cocoa rots in West AfricaIt’s a climate crisis playing out across Ivory Coast and Ghana, the heavyweights of cocoa, with consequences for global food inflation and ...02 Dec, 2023, 09.53 AM IST
- 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...02 Oct, 2023, 10.41 AM IST
- How West Africa can reap more profit from the global chocolate marketThe continent of Africa contributes to 70% of the global raw cocoa beans production. However, in the multibillion dollar global chocolate i...29 Sep, 2023, 09.53 AM IST
- World’s top food producers push back on deforestation rulesThe consumers worldwide may end up footing the bill as producers pass on the new costs to them.10 Aug, 2023, 09.49 AM IST
- 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...04 Jun, 2023, 09.56 AM IST
- How did the bitter medicine cacao turn into the world’s number 1 comfort food chocolate?In 16th century Latin America, cacao was used as a currency.15 Jan, 2023, 10.52 AM IST
- MNCs need to increase sourcing transparency with growing focus on global supply chains’ carbon footprint: Dan A. IancuDan A. Iancu teaches at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business (GSB). Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das, he discusses ways to improv...14 Jan, 2022, 12.21 AM IST
- How Asian chocolatiers are winning over with artisanal sweet treatsChocolate-makers in the Philippines are mixing soy sauce with their sweets.27 Mar, 2019, 05.12 PM IST
- Farmers, chocolatiers look to create a market for Indian-flavoured chocolatesChordia estimates at least 30 bean-to-bar chocolate makers will hit the scene by 2020.16 Feb, 2019, 12.20 PM IST
- Despite growing demand for chocolate, India imports most of its CocoaIn India, cocoa is grown primarily as an intercrop in Andhra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala, as the tree requires about 40-50 per cent s...21 May, 2017, 01.16 AM IST
- World 'faces chocolate drought in 2014'The world is facing a "chocolate drought", according to an expert, whose warning is prompted by fears that the globe's sustainable cocoa su...28 Jan, 2011, 01.22 PM IST
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