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GLOBAL COCOA SHORTAGE
Gulf shipping standoff hits world’s most vulnerable farmersGlobal supply chain disruptions, exacerbated by international conflicts, are making essential farming inputs scarce and unaffordable for sm...
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...
Ivory Coast bans some cocoa sales in another threat to marketIvory Coast takes steps to secure scarce cocoa supplies for local processors, potentially restricting bean exports and tightening the globa...
Why the world of chocolate is in crisisFor the world’s chocolate makers, the crisis is here. Plants have been forced to shutter from Malaysia to Germany and Chicago.
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...
Cocoa extends gains as supply shortage keeps price near recordPrices have surged this year — recently exceeding $10,000 a ton — as poor West African harvests put the world on course for another annual ...
Brazil cocoa farms go high-tech to upgrade ailing marketCocoa prices have more than doubled this year to a record as extreme weather, disease and structural issues have hurt supplies from Ivory C...
Cocoa’s relentless rally is pushing the market to breaking pointCocoa futures have surged as poor harvests in West Africa, where most of the world’s beans are grown, sparked a third year of shortages.
Global cocoa shortage to drive up cost of chocolate barsRising cocoa prices due to supply shortages are impacting chocolate manufacturers globally. Companies are considering price hikes, alternat...
Cost of your caffeine and sugar fix to stay high on El NiñoPrices of soft commodities have been outperformers this year, surging about 24% while the broader agriculture index eased 3% weighed by fal...
Chocolate makers stare at cocoa crunch, look for new raw materialsWith chocolate demand on the rise in India, China and everywhere else, the world is estimated to have consumed 70,000 metric tonnes of coco...
Chocolate rush hits a record as cocoa supplies wanePrices 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.
- Domestic cocoa prices may see a decline this year
Domestic cocoa prices may see a decline this year as the new crop promises to be good.
- Coffee, sugar prices to jump 5-fold by 2014
Coffee, sugar and cocoa prices will rise five- to 10-fold by 2014 because of shortages that will mean consumers getting “swamped” by food i...
- High prices, bean shortage to hit cocoa imports
High prices and a shortage of beans in the world market may adversely hit cocoa imports into the country.
Cocoa cultivation gains pace on global shortageGlobal shortage of cocoa has prompted southern states to spread cultivation to more areas.
- Cocoa cultivation rising in southern states
Robust trend in bean prices triggered by a global shortage of cocoa has prompted some southern states to spread the cultivation to more are...