Coffee prices saw significant hikes due to supply disruptions in Vietnam and Brazil. Brands like JM Smucker Co., and Pret A Manger increase...

For the world’s chocolate makers, the crisis is here. Plants have been forced to shutter from Malaysia to Germany and Chicago.

Prices have surged this year — recently exceeding $10,000 a ton — as poor West African harvests put the world on course for another annual ...

Cocoa futures have surged as poor harvests in West Africa, where most of the world’s beans are grown, sparked a third year of shortages.

Only because millions of West African farmers saw cocoa as their only way to escape abject poverty, the world had plentiful supply and low ...

Analysts at Rabobank and Marex expect West African output to drop in the 2023-24 season. Marex forecasts the global deficit at 279,000 tons...

Prices of soft commodities have been outperformers this year, surging about 24% while the broader agriculture index eased 3% weighed by fal...

Globally, central banks are seeing negative rates and that is driving the money into gold.

Besides India and China, other middle-income markets from where the highest percentage of growth is expected over the next five years inclu...

With chocolate demand on the rise in India, China and everywhere else, the world is estimated to have consumed 70,000 metric tonnes of coco...

Global food import bill could stabilise at $1.29 trillion in 2014 but expenses on import of animal products are set to increase due to risi...

The tendency for global import bills to be steady in 2014 extends to many of the most economically vulnerable nations, it said.

The El Nino weather pattern that can trigger drought in India and some parts of the world while causing flooding in other regions is increa...

Prices will rise as much as 8.3 per cent to 1,665 pounds a tonne in the first half of 2013, according to the mean of 17 analyst estimates.

Rising international cocoa prices, supply shortfall and poor quality of beans are worrying chocolate companies, the main buyers of the bean...

Robust trend in bean prices triggered by a global shortage of cocoa has prompted some southern states to spread the cultivation to more are...

Commodity prices in 2008 plunged the most in five decades as demand for energy, metals and grains tumbled in the second half because of the...