Articles Tagged with ''Ghana''

Barry Callebaut has acquired Nyonkopa Cocoa Buying Company Ltd. in Ghana.

For many cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, life is rife with both social and ethical issues.

The Hershey/IOI Loders Croklaan partnership will enable StarShea, a social business that commercializes shea butter supplied by its network of rural Ghanaian women.

How often have we heard that so many cocoa farmers never get to taste the very “food of the gods” that they grow?

In Ghana, female cocoa farmers earn 25-30 percent less than their male counterparts; in Cote d'Ivoire, women in cocoa communities earn up to 70 percent less than men.

Lindt & Sprungli is investing heavily into Ghana with hopes of being able to verify its entire cocoa beans supply chain from the country by 2016.

Despite its youth and size, San Francisco-based chocolate maker Tcho is making large-scale efforts to improve the global cocoa market, starting with Ghana. The company is collaborating with the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) to introduce a “Flavor Lab” at the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana to show farmers the direct link between quality at the farm level and increased value for their product.

If there’s one thing the company that makes Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups should know, it’s that chocolate and peanut butter go pretty well together.

When Yao N'Dri Pasca was having a problem with black pod disease on his cocoa farm, he turned to pesticides.

"Better Cocoa: Driving Transformation & Measuring Success" was the theme of this year’s World Cocoa Foundation’s 21st bi-annual partnership meeting.